Jesus' Public Ministry through the Gospel

Abstract

“Jesus’ words, too, would have felt different to each person and been received differently. Whathappened?”This question is the starting point of this working note. I attempted to answer it through Peirce’s semiosis,and by depicting this semiosis through the metaphor of cascading falls. The water flows were divided intoJesus, the Crowd, Religious Authorities, and Roman Military Administration, depicting the responses,interpretations, and actions of the other three streams in relation to the words and actions during theperiod from the beginning of the public ministry to the cross.This note stopped right at visualizing this depiction in a figure. Hoping that perhaps someone else will dothe rest…