Suffering and Sacrifice

Candida R. Moss*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Each of the Synoptic writers envisions the world as a place in which suffering is powerful, predictable, and meaningful. Each expects that followers of Jesus will experience hardships and that people in general will experience suffering in the apocalypse. While for Luke the death of Jesus adheres to the model of the self-controlled and respectable death of a philosopher, for Mark Jesus’s suffering is uncomfortably close and present: the reader cannot look away from the Gethsemane agony or cry of despair from the cross. For Matthew such moments serve as teaching moments: they offer moments of instruction for the disciples and, by extension, the audience itself.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels
EditorsStephen P. Ahearne-Kroll
PublisherOxford University Press
Chapter13
Pages245–259
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9780190887483
ISBN (Print)9780190887452
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 May 2023

Publication series

NameOxford Handbooks Online
PublisherOxford University Press

Keywords

  • suffering
  • persecution
  • martyrdom
  • pain
  • passion narratives

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