done in this most personal letter, which seems at times to be welling up like a fountain of tears from the depths of his heart. ‘The deadness of Jesus—that’s what we carry about in the body; and this is in order that Jesus’ life may be revealed there too!’ That’s what Paul has had to go through in Asia (1:8–10), and he is determined to understand his own experience not as a denial of the gospel but as a strange confirmation of it. If you want to see resurrection at work here and now, in your own