bondage and into freedom, so here we are on the cusp of the greater deliverance of which that was the harbinger. Jesus, the Chosen, Suffering Servant, and Lamb of God, for sinners to be slain, is the fulfillment of all that the law (Moses) and the prophets (Elijah) have spoken. Peter the spokesman, James the first martyr, and John the beloved are selected to receive thus a privileged insight into the meaning of their spiritual history and its culmination in Jesus. For them, what they see is a paradigm