for the way to eternal life. In the following discussion with his disciples, Jesus contrasts their situation “in this time” with the eternal life that they will experience “in the age to come” (Mk. 10:30). The idiom “this time” (en tō kairō toutō) is a synonym for “this age” (see Rom. 8:18). Cullmann has correctly expounded the view that the eschatological dualism is the substructure of redemptive history.11 There is no New Testament word for “eternity,” and we are not to think of eternity as the