passion narrative); and whereas in the rest of the Gospel Luke hardly ever changes the Markan order, there are suddenly about 12 (albeit small) differences in order between Luke and Mark in the passion narrative. All this has led a number of scholars to suggest that Luke may have used another source for the passion. And in view of the supreme importance for many of the accounts of Jesus’ death, the source-critical question here is of considerable significance (see Streeter 1924; Taylor 1972 and others;
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