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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 really kick into gear for this entry--in fact, there are more plotnotes than actual text! That will be true for the next entries, too, which deal with the trials. To help distinguish plotnotes from textual data, therefore, I will begin formatting the plotnotes as if they were blockquotes. The End Begins (All the storytellers join in harmony...) Jesus arrived on the Mount of Olives, as He usually did, and went into the groves with His disciples. And they are coming to a place called Geth Semanei. ('where the oil goes through': i.e., the olive press--now deserted on a night in spring when olives aren't in season.) Now He says to His disciples, "Sit here, while I go over there and pray." [Plotnote: placing them to watch for anyone coming up the three main pa...

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, "...