theological and dramatic significance of “the hour of Jesus” leads the reader to understand it as causal: “because of that hour.”60 As a result of the lifting up of Jesus on the cross, the Beloved Disciple and the mother of Jesus become one. The disciple leads the mother eis ta idia. The situation described in the prologue, where the Word came eis ta idia but was not received (ou parelabon), has now been reversed. Because of the cross, and from the moment of the cross, a new family of Jesus has been
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