was kept alive at Qumran, and it is striking that it is the judgment aspect of the metaphor which is stressed, as when the Legitimate Teacher expresses his awareness of being commissioned to execute God’s fishing among his contemporaries.100 The Teacher continues what God has done, in the company of others who are fishers. It is this understanding which provides the key both to the urgency in Jesus’ summons of Simon and Andrew and to the radical obedience they displayed in responding to his call.
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