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Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians today accept that Jesus is God and worship him as part of the Trinity. But what did the New Testament writers say about worshipping Jesus? Did they portray him as God, someone whom we should worship? Or did they see him as a great prophet like Moses or Elijah? Here, James Dunn introduces readers to the key New Testament passages that must be examined when trying to understand this...

prostrate (proskynēsousin) themselves before the Philadelphians’ feet (Rev. 3:9). The probability is that we should read the accounts of various individuals coming and prostrating themselves before Jesus during his mission in Galilee in the same light: the leper coming to Jesus for his help, prostrating himself (proskynei) before Jesus (Matt. 8:2); the ruler of the synagogue (Jairus) similarly bowing down before Jesus (proskynei) to ask for his help (Matt. 9:18); the Syrophoenician woman making similar
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