analysis, however, is the fact that “faith” is clearly a quality or power exercised by the human person Jesus, not something directed to Jesus by others. Having shown the narrative function of faith through the analysis of these two story fragments, Hays moves to the second stage of his argument, in which he contends, against the majority position within scholarship, that the subjective reading of πίσις Χριστοῦ best corresponds to the narrative logic and best expresses Paul’s theological point.