Exhuming Easter (complete - 3rd edition)
Harmonizing the six Biblical accounts of the last days of Jesus Christ, and reinterpreting the implications of the same
Harmonizing the six Biblical accounts
of the last days of Jesus Christ, and reinterpreting the implications of the same
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While they were underway, Jesus turned to them and said, “Now the Son of Man<br />
has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him,<br />
God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. My children, I am with<br />
you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to<br />
you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ I give you a new commandment, that you love<br />
one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone<br />
will know that you are my disciples, if you show love for one another.” [John 13:31-35]<br />
And then Jesus faced Simon Peter and said, “Truly I tell you, this very night,<br />
before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” [Matthew 26:34] And then Jesus<br />
said to them all, “And you will indeed all become deserters; for it is written: ‘I will strike<br />
the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ And yet after I am raised up, I will go<br />
before you to Galilee.” Then Peter said to him, “Even though all become deserters, I will<br />
not.” And Jesus turned to him and said, “Truly I tell you, this day, this very night, before<br />
the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And yet Peter answered<br />
vehemently, “Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And the rest of<br />
them said the same. [Mark 14:27-31]<br />
In Gethsemane …<br />
After they had arrived at their destination (a garden called Gethsemane) and<br />
entered there, Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go pray, and pray yourselves<br />
that you might not come into the time of trial.” [Matthew 26:36, Mark 14:32, Luke 22:40 &<br />
John 18:1b] He then took with him Peter and James & John (the two sons of Zebedee),<br />
and said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake.”<br />
Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and threw himself on the ground and<br />
began to be grieved and agitated, praying that the hour might pass from him, saying,<br />
“Abba, my Father, if it is possible – and for you all things are indeed possible, remove<br />
this cup from me. And yet not my will, but yours be done.” [Matthew 26:37-39, Mark<br />
14:33-36 & Luke 22:41-42] Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and gave him<br />
strength. And in his anguish he prayed even more earnestly, and his sweat fell like great<br />
drops of blood down upon the ground. [Luke 22:43-44]<br />
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