however, have followed up the central Gospel insight which is symbolized in the ‘title’ on the cross—‘King of the Jews’ in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Jesus himself, in several sayings, saw his forthcoming death not only as ‘salvific’ in the traditional sense of ‘saving souls’, but as ‘kingdom-bringing’. When faced with two of his right-hand men, James and John, wanting the best seats ‘in the kingdom’, Jesus responded by redefining power itself. The world’s rulers exercise power by bossing and bullying,
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