In viewing the written Gospels as Jesus-memory, the present study adopts the continuity perspective and is therefore interested in how early Christians preserved, commemorated, and interpreted the past of Jesus in light of that past and their present. On this account, it is important to underscore that I am not advocating a conservative retreat to a literalist approach to the Gospels as pure images of “what really happened.” Rather, I am simply taking seriously that the past is not, in every way,