has often been pointed out, there would be more reason to doubt their reliability if they all merely parroted one another, for that, as in any court of law where witnesses agree in every detail with one another, would give rise to the suspicion that they had all been carefully coached about the evidence they provided. Rather, the differing perspectives on the cross which each Gospel writer provides gives us a complete and multifaceted view of what happened on that first Good Friday. The starting-gun