based: the exalted Jesus addresses his community following Easter in the words of the earthly Jesus, and the earthly Jesus appears in the course of his ministry in the effulgence of the exalted Jesus. So it is that, throughout the Gospel, the earthly Jesus is “worshiped” (cf. proskynein), and if strangers, enemies, and Judas Iscariot always greet him with “teacher” or “rabbi” but never with the equally respectful title of “kyrie” (“sir,” 27:62–63), the disciples and those who believe he can heal
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