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1. "Die Sache Jesu " is "das, worum es ihm ging, worauf es ihm ankam"--"Jesus' thing" is "what he was about, what concerned him."
2. "Die Sache Jesu" is (to be understood as) "einbrechende Gottesherrschaft"--"Jesus' thing" is (to be understood as) "(the) breaking in of God's rule."
3. Wiki Markup"Die Sache Jesu" means "\[Jesus\] selbst in seinem Verkündigen, Tun und Verhalten"--"Jesus' thing" means "Jesus himself in his proclaiming, doing, and conduct."

But if, according to 1 and 3, what Jesus was about, was concerned with, was himself in his proclaiming, doing, and conduct, then how could it be that, according to 1 and 2, what Jesus was about, was concerned with, was the breaking in of God's rule? Only, I take it, if Jesus himself in his proclaiming, doing, and conduct was the means wherethrough the breaking in of God's rule took place.

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