John is more concerned to show that Jesus has fulfilled his mission, and has no interest in showing that Jesus ended his life citing Scripture. For him, the words ‘It is finished’ have more meaning. This I shall call the ‘moderate’ view. It accepts that real events lie behind the Gospel stories but believes that they have been embellished as each Gospel writer adapts the tradition to meet his readers’ needs. Thus Mark is known as the ‘suffering Gospel’ and seems to go out of its way to emphasize