to ask questions whose only purpose is to delay an obedience that is quite clear. In Jesus’ story there are thieves and victims, spectators and helpers. The people who will read what I have to say … clearly do not belong among the victims. I cannot say whether they should count themselves among the thieves or not.… Jesus intended this story for people of the “spectator” or “passer-by” type. —Dorothee Soelle The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity, trans. Robert and Rita kimber