that v. 52* comments on the disciples’ behavior in the account as a whole.119 It may well be that the narrative implies that Jesus’ sending the disciples on without him was a test of their faith. After Moses exhorts the people, “Have courage!” (Θαρσεῖτε), in the text cited above, he goes on to say, “For God has come to you for the sake of testing you, so that the fear of him may be in you, in order that you may not sin” (ἕνεκεν γὰρ τοῦ πειράσαι ὑμᾶς παρεγενήθη ὁ θεὸς πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ὅπως