Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

The Kingdom as Jesus sees it breaking in will arrive in disenchanting and disarming form : not as a mighty cedar astride the lofty mountain height but as a lowly garden herb.... It will erupt out of the power of weakness and refuse to perpetuate itself by the weakness of power.

Throughout Wrede argued against the view that the Messiah secret had been a part of the actual history of Jesus, and he seemed unaware that such argument is not the same as a pursuit of Mark's intention.

John's most characteristic word for salvation, then, is life, and ultimately it is not a quality, a state, to which Jesus brings men, but Jesus himself.

There is no mistaking the fact that the narrative traditions of the Old Testament expect to find a hearing among people prepared to recognize their own story in what is told and to see their own times as a direct extension of the same story.

In an evocative and provocative way Harriet Beecher Stowe focused the attention of her reader on the "sympathies of Christ/' to show that where these sympathies were manifested among whites and blacks, God was present, manifesting his power, liberating all in bondage.