(e.g., 5:20). “After his resurrection a development occurs so that it is Jesus’s teachings—themselves a true expression of the Torah—that are to guide the lives of his disciples.”86 As such, learning obedience goes beyond learning the content of Jesus’s teachings to learning practices that are patterned after Jesus’s own ways of life—centered around justice, mercy, and loyalty (cf. Matt 23:23; see ch. 13). The final line of the First Gospel promises Jesus’s presence with his people “even to the end
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