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170 Notes to Chapter 7Ernst Bammel, “Crucifixion as a Punishment in Palestine,” in idem, The Trial ofJesus, pp. 162–165.51. b Sanh 67a; the Palestinian parallels (t Sanh 10:11; y Sanh 7:16/1, fol.25c–d; y Yev 16:1/23, fol. 15d) mention only Ben Stada and his execution bystoning, but not that he was hanged on the eve of Passover. On Ben Stada seeabove, ch. 1.52. Mt. 26:20ff.; Mk. 14:12ff.; Lk. 22:15 (Jesus tells his disciples that he eagerlyawaited eating the Passover meal with them before he suffers).53. John 13:1ff.54. John 19:14.55. The Firenze manuscript emphasizes that the day of execution was onSabbath eve, i.e., a Friday, which is concordant with all the four Gospels.56. John 19:31.57. Josephus gets it right when he says (with reference to the murdered HighPriests Ananus and Jesus during the first Jewish war): “They [the murderers] actuallywent so far in their impiety as to cast out the corpses without burial, althoughthe Jews are so careful about funeral rights that even malefactors who have beensentenced to crucifixion are taken down and buried before sunset” (Bell. 4, 317).58. Mt. 27:17–23; Mk. 15:9–15; Lk. 23:13–25; John 18:38–19:16.59. According to Matthew, influenced by his wife (Mt. 27:19).60. John 19:12.61. This is again the straw man against whom Maier fights (Jesus vonNazareth, pp. 231f.).62. The fact that we are dealing with a Baraita does not necessarily mean thatit is an early Palestinian Baraita because not all Baraitot in the Bavli are original;see Günter Stemberger, Einleitung in Talmud und Midrasch, Munich: Beck, 8thed., 1992, pp. 199f. But nothing in this specific case indicates that our Baraita issuspicious.Chapter 7Jesus’ Disciples1. Mt. 4:18–20; Mk. 1:16–20; Lk. 5:1–11 (only Simon, James, and John);John 1:35–42 (two disciples of John the Baptist, one anonymous and the otherone Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter).