The last sentences sum up in superb language the concern of Jeremias: “The call stands above the response, because Jesus is the Kyrios and the Kyrios stands above his messengers. The Kyrios above is the beginning and end, the center and measure of all Christian theology.”226 This first part of the NT Theology of Jeremias brings together in a masterly way everything Jeremias has been known for. A recent reviewer summed it up by saying, “Few other NT scholars could have written the book.”227 Jeremias