move back and forth until we have identified ourselves with the many people who surround Jesus. For as long as we fail to recognize ourselves in these people, we fail to recognize the Lord.… The best thing to do is always to take up your position at exactly the same point where one of the persons who meet him or appear in his parables stands; to stand, for example, where John is in prison addressing doubting questions to him, or the Canaanite woman, who desires nothing of him but the crumbs that
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