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Please see here for Round Three material (and links tracing all the way back to Round One). We’re now down three out of five pieces of speculative innuendo (or as Bishop Spong calls them, “easily identifiable, documentable facts”); we’re at the next to last one now. “The fourth reason for my suspicion is that the story of the act of betrayal is set very dramatically at midnight.” And there’s number four. I’ll try to make it better by quoting the full extent of his argument on this point. “It is just too neat a detail to have what the gospel writers believed was the darkest deed in human history occur at the darkest moment of the night. That looks more like a liturgical drama than it does a fact of history.” That’s it. The end. Apparently he thinks we won’t remember (or maybe he himself doesn’t remember) what he himself stated, not three minutes ago (when he was desperately trying to make GosLuke details look like legendary accretion): that the Sanhedrin could have followed Jesus back ...

Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) The plotnotes continue factoring heavily for this entry; so I am continuing to blockquote them for ease of distinction between them and actual text. Into the Trials (The storytellers continue together in harmony, complementing and overlapping each other...) So the squad and the captain and the deputies of the Jews arrested Jesus, and bound Him, and led Him away--first to Annas, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas who was high priest that year. Now Caiaphas (the Evangelist reminds his audience) was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better for one man to die on behalf of the people. But Simon Peter was following Jesus at a distance... and so was another disciple (says the Evangelist). Now that (other) disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the court of ...

Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) Through the Shadows of Death (the night before the end...) Now Jesus said to them (tells the Scholar, probably meaning as they were preparing to leave the Upper Room), "When I sent you out without a purse and bag and shoes, you did not lack anything, did you?" And they said, "Nothing." (Or possibly, 'Yet they say nothing...') And He said to them, "But now, let him who has a purse go get it; likewise a bag as well; and whoever doesn't have one, let him sell his cloak and buy a sword! "For I tell you: this, which is written (in Isaiah), must be fulfilled in Me: 'And with rebels He is numbered.' For this concerning Me is also having its fulfillment." And they said, "Master, look! Here are two swords!" And He said to them, "...