%0 Journal Article
%T Jesus Christ – first called and calling
%A Demitrów, Andrzej
%J Sympozjum
%V 2022 - Volume XXVI
%R 10.4467/25443283SYM.22.011.17379
%N Issue 2 (43)
%P 11-52
%K vocation, Servant of the Lord, disciples, apostles, departure
%@ 2543-5442
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/sympozjum/article/jezus-chrystus-pierwszy-powolany-i-powolujacy
%X 
	The reality of a vocation presupposes the existence of a person calling and being called, as well as a positive response in the form of accepting the call and taking up the consequences that follow. Jesus Christ, being at the same time the Son of God, in his humanity, experienced the reality of vocation on the part of God. The data for its knowledge are contained in the prophetic writings of the Old Testament, especially in the Songs of the Servant of the Lord, which, when subjected to a canonical approach in the reading of Scripture, provide an eloquent key in reading the realisation of Jesus’ mission in the New Testament. At the same time, the New Testament texts contain testimonies in which it is Jesus himself who calls specific people, but with varying results: immediate following, refusal to take up the call or the imposition of preconditions. Also in the very people called, who immediately responded to the call, there was infidelity and abandonment of Jesus in the hour of the trial of the cross. It is significant that after his resurrection, the Lord Jesus called them again and confirmed their apostolic mission.