to Jerusalem (Matt. 20:17–19; 26:1–2; Luke 24:7). And in the reports of Jesus’s passing, the word crucify is spoken by a variety of witnesses with widely ranging interests, including Pilate, the hostile crowd, Jewish leaders, an angel, the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and the narrator (Matt. 27:22–23, 26, 31, 35; 28:5; Mark 15:13–15, 20, 24–25, 27; 16:6; Luke 23:21, 33; 24:20; John 19:6, 10, 15–16, 18, 20, 23, 41). The variety of reporters and the repetition of the term leave us certain of the