unbelievers, and from verse 34 on Jesus will switch to address his opponents in the crowd. Some who had believed could have had the same quasi-faith as in 2:23, but they are presented as total opponents from the start, and it is best to see both groups, the saved and the unsaved, in the crowd here. In these first two verses Jesus is speaking to the believers in the crowd and defines true disciples as those who “hold to my teaching,” with “hold” translating the verb menō, “remain, abide in.” This