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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...

to a disembodied heaven. This is where so many of the Easter hymns, including alas some of my own favourites, get it wrong, or at least only half right, and the wrong half at that. Easter is not about the fact that ‘Heaven’s bright gates are open held’, though they are; it’s about the fact that the powerful new life of heaven has come to birth on the earth, and that we are to be its agents as well as its beneficiaries. Easter is not the celebration that Jesus is king ‘above the sky’, as though he’d
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