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The Death of the Messiah, Volumes 1 & 2: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Passion Narrative proceeds from arrest through trial to condemnation, execution, and burial. In each Gospel, it records the longest consecutive action of Jesus. It has captured the attention and imagination of dramatists and artists, and it has inspired the poetry and music of the church for two thousand years. Alongside “born of the Virgin Mary,” the other phrase that made its way into the...

“Keep your eyes open and stay awake, for you do not know when is the appointed time [kairos].” The parable tells of a master who has gone away leaving servants in charge and a doorkeeper admonished to watch. The master may return at any of the four divisions of the night (late evening, midnight, cockcrow, early morning), and he must not find them asleep. Jesus ends the parable (13:37) with the directive, “What I say to you, I say to all, ‘Keep on watching.’ ” Certainly the Gethsemane context in Mark
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