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3. "The entirety of the canonical witness is indispensable to a faithful rendering of the figure of Jesus."

Wiki Markup4. "In order to understand the identity of Jesus rightly, the church must constantly engage in the practice of deep, sustained reading of these texts." (The immediately following sentence reads, significantly \ -\- and very differently\! \ -\- "If Jesus is to be known through the testimony of the apostolic witnesses, one primary means of access to him will be through disciplined, faithful engagement with the texts through which that testimony is mediated" \ [30\].)

5. "To come to grips with the identity of Jesus, we must know him as he is presented to us through the medium of narrative."

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