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Tom Wright examines accounts of the events from Palm Sunday to Easter as they appear in the gospels of Matthew and of John, looking at these familiar passages from many unfamiliar angles to help us see them afresh. Both Matthew and John understand the events of Jesus’ last week as the climax of the entire biblical narrative, and as the great moment when God’s power—made known, paradoxically in...

in the Bible, the answers you’d get would probably be in the range of ‘Don’t misbehave’, ‘Don’t tell lies’, ‘Always say your prayers’, and perhaps ‘Love God and your neighbour’. But all of them would be wrong. Far and away the most frequent commandment in the Bible is what the angel says to the women, and what Jesus then repeats: ‘Don’t be afraid.’ Yes, something new has happened. Yes, the world is never going to be the same again. Yes, your life is about to be turned upside down and inside out.
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