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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...

women, who have been with him since his days in Galilee, have been present at the cross (15:40–41), at the burial (15:47), and at the empty tomb (16:1–7). But in the end they join the disciples in their trembling, astonishment, fear, and flight (v. 8; see 14:50). In the light of the information provided in 1:1–13 the Christian reader is asked to reassess God’s design, outlined in 1:1–13, on arrival at the conclusion of the story of Jesus in 16:1–8. If 1:1–13 served as a prologue to the Gospel of
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