„Repent...” Untangling the Anomaly of Then and Now

Abstract

Jesus’ radicalism is based on the fact that 
the pious religious image we have of Jesus is 
fundamentally different from the image Jesus 
Christ had as a historical person. Radicalism 
was never strange to the Old Testament 
prophets and is thus intrinsic to Jesus’ 
prophetic role. It is also fundamental that 
prophetic radicalism should manifest itself 
towards the internal institutions of religion: 
priests, Levites, Pharisees, etc. The question is 
how to highlight parallels between the religious 
conditions of that current age and those of 
days. Understanding the Greek language’s 
duality of tempus and actio brings us closer to 
the message of Jesus two thousand years ago, 
which is still relevant today