image of rule to celebrate God delivering God’s people (Psalms 47; 72). Here it expresses Jesus’ commission to manifest God’s saving presence (1:21–23). This reign originates in God’s domain, heaven (cf. 6:10); the verb “come near” tensively holds together nearness and arrival. The following two scenes illustrate the disruptive and restorative impact of God’s rule/empire. In 4:18–22, it overturns the lives of four fishermen embedded in the empire’s socioeconomic structures of a fishing economy, providing