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The Preexistent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this challenging book, rising New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole contradicts a commonly held view among biblical scholars—that the Gospel of John is the only Gospel to give evidence for Jesus’ heavenly identity and preexistence. The Preexistent Son demonstrates that Matthew, Mark, and Luke were also well aware that the Son of God existed with the Father prior to his earthly ministry....

How to describe the responses of the disciples at the moments of their highest appreciation of Jesus has been controversial.80 Particularly, argument has been focused around the meaning of the Greek word προσκυνεῖν. Moule has rendered it as “obeisance”;81 Hurtado has continued to use the language of “devotion”;82 Bauckham is happy to translate the word as “worship” in many instances, particularly in Matthew.83 The question, however, is not particularly
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