“What do you think,” Michael asked me, “Jesus meant when he said to his students, ‘I’m going away . . . It will be good for you . . . You’ve been my servants, but now I regard you as friends’? What’s happening here? I’ll tell you what’s happening: he’s releasing those men from the rabbinical contract. They’re free to go. In fact, he expected—he even wanted—them to go and teach others just like he’d taught them.” “The Great Commission,” I said.
