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In my view, however, very much as in Marxsen's, what Jesus probably wanted was something different -- namely, that his hearers should exist eschatologically, anticipating God's coming reign already here and now by obediently submitting to God's rule, the gift and demand of which were even now confronting them through him. Again, in a word, Jesus wanted people to change their being -- or, better, to allow their being to be changed ed by God's gracious acceptance of them through him so as to bring forth good fruit.

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