of his response, Jesus in a certain sense distances himself from an exclusively mother-son relationship, as he is recorded to have done in the †Synoptics.20 Yet through the culturally surprising address of his mother as “woman,” Jesus also reestablishes the relationship between them on a different basis: discipleship and the accomplishment of God’s saving work. In the second part of his response, Jesus tells his mother, My hour has not yet come. This is the first time that Jesus speaks of his †hour,