4:9 Where …? A rhetorical question (3:9). I don’t know. An outright lie. Am I my brother’s keeper? Demonstrating callous indifference—all too common through the whole course of human history. 4:10 Your brother’s blood cries out. For justice. “Righteous Abel” (Mt 23:35), in one sense a “prophet” (Lk 11:50–51), “still speaks, even though he is dead” (Heb 11:4), for his spilled blood continues to cry out to God against all those who do violence to others. But the blood of Christ “speaks a better