Jesus' teaching on the kingdom of God extends throughout the Gospels and appears to have largely determined the course of his ministry. But until this volume, scholars have avoided using these teachings to probe the question of who Jesus is. Beasley-Murray meticulously traces the concept of theophany through the literature of the Old Testament and early Judaism, examines the sayings of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels, and exegetes passages that portray the coming of the kingdom and relate to the activity and suffering of the Son of Man. Paper from Eerdmans.
