cases, the sense must be decided from the context. The indicative is preferable here for two reasons: (1) It is difficult to gain a coherent idea of what Peter might have meant people to do in response to a command to ‘be built’.45 But the statement of fact, ‘you are being built’, makes good sense and would encourage the readers to appreciate their spiritual status as ‘living stones’. (2) Both NEB and RSV, in order to make sense of what they take to be the command ‘be built’, must shift the main