Biblica_1:Layout 1 21-11-2011 12:59 Pagina 403 403 “SEEK HIS KINGDOM” creation” 50. The idea that the “kingdom” in Q 12,31 can be seen as a “new creation” or “a restoration of creation” is supported by Luke’s description of Jesus’ ministry coinciding with the year of God’s grace, or Jubilee (Luke 4,16), the year in which men don’t need to work, but can live on the Lord’s blessing. Q 12,22-31 also “shows several structural similarities to Gen. 2-3” . In Q, “there is no compulsion to procure one’s own sustenance. The exhortation points in a direction opposite to the curse in Gen 3,17-19”, that man will live on what the earth provides with “grief ” (λύπη). Human labor to gather earthly “treasures” and possessions is op- posed to God’s will; human anxiety over food and clothing is also opposed to seeking God’s kingdom and will. This is a lack of faith in God’s providence. God is the one who provides. The “one called to be a disciple is provided for independently of his work, as in paradise, according to Gen. 2” . David Mealand has drawn attention to “Para- disial” elements in Q 12,22b-31, noting that it is “not unreasonable to see a connection between the expectation of the Reign of God and that of a return to the condition of Paradise”. Since “the need to worry about clothing, and the need to work for food came after the Fall” in Genesis, Jesus’ saying “seems to disregard the emphasis on the fall”, and demonstrates “a simple dependence on God characteristic of Par- adisial conditions” 51. This “tentative conclusion” can now be sup- plemented by further analysis of the christologies of Q. III. The (Adamic) Wisdom and Christology of Q 12,22b-31 The following christological profiles can be identified in Q: (1) an early [proto-] Wisdom christology; (2) “son of man” traditions, (indirectly correlated to the “coming one”), with hints of [subver- sive] messianism; and (3) “Son of God” traditions, some of which may correspond to the kingdom of God just surveyed and yield clues to the literary identity and role of the figure who “proclaims” the “good news” of this wisdom. Let us briefly review. 50 AGRELL, Work, Toil and Sustenance, 80-81. 51 MEALAND, “‘Paradisial’ Elements in the Teaching of Jesus”, 179, 182.