How do you understand Jesus’ servanthood through Filial, Ministerial, and Paschal?
I don’t. Those terms mean little to me. Jesus seemed to understand his servanthood as flowing from the prophet Isaiah’s image of the suffering servant. See Isaiah 42. The prophet saw the nation Israel as this “servant” whom God upholds, who brings forth justice and doesn’t grow faint when people fight back. Jesus saw himself as that servant, called by God “as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,” and to declare “new things.” He called his disciples also to be suffering servants, giving up their lives for God’s people.
