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Disciple’s cross

Summary/Abstract: Cross in the Jesus’ preaching in commonly interpreted neither as a symbol or as post-Eastern projection produced by Christian community. Similarly the figure of Jesus’ helper, Simon of Cyrene, is frequently interpreted as symbolic one, as the dramatic repetition of Jesus’ indications for his disciples. In this study we try to explain the possibility of real (not symbolic) meaning of the disciple’s cross in the Gospels. We present the texts about cross and disciples divided into three groups: Matt 16, 24 (par. Mark 8, 34; Luke 9, 23), Matt 10, 38 (par. Luke 14, 27), Matt 27, 32 (par. Mc 15, 21; Luke 23, 26). Our analysis of these texts offers the possibility of understanding the preaching of Jesus as eschatological self-revelation of the Lord of Life. In the pericope about Simon we see the historical narrative with relevant information about the members of primitive Christian community presented by Marc. In Luke’s version we recognize the literary rearrangement of this fact in the compatibility with the Jesus’ teaching about disciple’s cross.

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