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What is the role in the narrative of the one called the beloved of Jesus? Why should one be singled out as Jesus’ loved one in this way? Some of the proposed answers to this question have served to deflect attention away from the erotic character of the relationship that we explored in the previous chapter. Accordingly we need to pay these answers particular attention if we are to substantiate the homoerotic reading of the relationship that we have proposed.