JETS 24:2 (June 1981) p. 122 text of the evangelists (tradition history). Finally, the evangelists have obviously selected, rearranged, reworked and even reworded the tradition28 while shaping their own inspired portrait of Jesus and his ministry. Such a composition raises the question of the redactional intention and motifs of the evangelists (redaction criticism). Without doubt, therefore, a consensus about the nature and content of the gospels has emerged among evangelical scholars. This consensus