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- The idea that the messiah would be identified by the healings
he carried out, assumed in the tradition of Jesus’ answer to John the
Baptist (Matthew 11.2–6, Luke 7.18–23) is almost entirely absent
from our sources for Jewish messianic expectations at the time. It
can only be found in Dead Sea Scroll 4Q521. See Lidija Novakovic,
‘4Q521: The Works of the Messiah or the Signs of the Messianic
Time?’, in Qumran Studies, ed. by Michael Thomas Davis and Brent
A. Strawn (Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2007), pp. 208–231. - E.g. Matthew 10.8, Luke 10.9.
- Matthew 19.28, Luke 22.28–30. Cf. Psalms of Solomon 17.26.
Gerd Theissen, ‘Gruppenmessianismus: Überlegungen zum Ursprung
der Kirche im Jüngerkreis Jesu’, Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie, 7
(1992), 101–123. - This is most obvious in the arrest narratives. See Matthew
26:47–56, Mark 14:43–52, Luke 22:47–53, John 18:1–11. - Benjamin Franks, Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of
Contemporary British Anarchisms (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2006),
p. 93. - Franks, Rebel Alliances, p. 98.
- Matthew 13.31, Mark 4.31; Luke 13.18–19, Thomas 20.
- Graeber, Direct Action, p. 203.
- Matthew 21.13, Mark 11.15–19, Luke 19.45–48, John 2.13–17.
- Matthew 22.15–22, Mark 12.13–17, Luke 20.20–26, Thomas
100, Egerton Papyrus 2. - Matthew 26.57–27.26, Mark 14.53–15.15, Luke 22.54–25,
John 18.12–19.16. - Graeber, Direct Action, p. 114.
- See, for example, Matthew 17.19–27; Matthew 18.3, Mark
9.15, Luke 18.17. - Marshall, Demanding, p. 75.
- Justin J. Meggitt, ‘Review of Mary Ann Beavis, Jesus & Utopia:
Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World’, Utopian
Studies, 18 (2007), 281–284.