Johannine features, taken together, ought to caution any interpreter against understanding the death of Christ in the Fourth Gospel as an exclusively revelatory event.18 There appears to be ample room in the Evangelist’s passion theology for both revelatory and expiatory themes. Christ the Paschal Victim This theme emerges at several points in the Fourth Gospel. Despite the skepticism of Dodd,19 it appears to be a leading idea of the Evangelist. Acknowledging the prominence of this thematic development,