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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