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The Resurrection of the Messiah: A Narrative Commentary on the Resurrection Accounts in the Four Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

Francis J. Moloney provides a narrative reading of the resurrection stories in Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. His focus is almost entirely upon the text itself. Guided by current scholarship, he uncovers the perennial significance of the four resurrection narratives that are accepted and read as sacred Scripture in the Christian tradition. Without disregarding the historical background that must...

they not ask this question before they set out on their journey with the express purpose of anointing the body (see v. 1)?23 The narrative provides the answer in v. 4: if three women were aware that they would not be able to roll back the stone, it must have been very large.24 The narrator announces that such was the case (see v. 4b). God’s action has already overcome the women’s difficulty. Raising their eyes, they saw that the stone had been rolled back (v. 4a). The passive form of the perfect
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