his divinity. This came only with their faith in him and experience of him as the risen and glorified Lord: “His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that what had been written of him was what they had done to him” (Jn 12:16; cf. 2:22). Yet none of these disciple-preachers ever sought to reproduce with factual accuracy the words and deeds of Jesus himself; they understood those words and deeds with hindsight and adapted them to the needs of