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This week's discussion questions:

1. How have you previously considered the statement about “the first and the last?”

2. How can we understand this text in light of Jesus’s direct audience? How might we understand this text on the larger scale?

3. Why do you think it’s important: To ask difficult questions of the text? To consider context? To understand the audience?