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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...

The import of the Mark/Matt citation is that since Jesus the caring shepherd who brought the flock into being is to be struck down,27 the sheep will no longer receive his care and will be scattered. For “scatter” John uses skorpizein; Mark/Matt uses diaskorpizein (late Greek with the connotation “scatter about”). While this reading does not agree with the majority LXX tradition (ekspan, “draw out”), we are not certain whether “scatter” represents an independent Christian rendering of the Hebrew or
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