Its christological claim is linked to a summons to discipleship. This is in fact the case in all four of the passion predictions in Mark (of which 10:45 is part of the third) and therefore in all of the Synoptic Gospels, since Matthew and Luke take them up. Jesus calls his disciples to a life of “taking up their cross” (Mark 8:34 and parallels in Matthew and Luke) that is analogous to his own death and can therefore be termed “cruciform existence” or “cruciformity.”
