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The Expository Times once contained a famous article by Vincent Taylor asking the question “Does the New Testament call Jesus God?” Twenty years before Rudolf Bultmann said, “In describing Christ as God the New Testament still exercises great restraint.” Taylor’s conclusion was that the only clear statement of Jesus’ deity was Thomas’ words “My Lord and my God.” In a later article in The...

Thirdly, the suffering of the Son of Man has redemptive significance. The fact that he would suffer came like a bombshell to the disciples at Caesarea Philippi: ‘The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again’ (Mark 8:31). The must was not the must of circumstances or of the social and political inevitability of such a person provoking the resentment of the authorities. It was, first of all,
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