JETS 49:2 (June 2006) p. 337 a story conflated from two different accounts.33 Thus, the excuse that one can proclaim it because the story really happened is apparently not valid. In retrospect, keeping these two pericopae in our Bibles rather than relegating them to the footnotes seems to have been a bomb just waiting to explode. All Ehrman did was to light the fuse. One lesson we must learn from Misquoting Jesus is that those in ministry need to close the gap between the church and the academy.