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Which came first: a coherent Passion story or the Gospel of Mark? Contemporary biblical scholarship is divided over how exactly the Passion story developed. Whatever the shape of the story prior to Mark, it must have been imprinted with Christian experience as well as historical memory. Mark, in turn, felt free to retell and reinterpret that story for his own time and place. The Passion of Jesus...

the moment is signaled by Jesus’ taking with him Peter, James and John (14:33). This same trio had been the privileged witnesses of the raising of Jairus’ daughter from the dead (5:37) and the transfiguration (9:2). And these three, along with Andrew (13:3), had heard Jesus’ final discourse on the Mount of Olives, predicting the travails of the community in history and ending with a warning “to stay awake!” (13:37). Now these disciples who had witnessed the high points of his ministry would be with
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