The Death of Christ: Its Place and Interpretation in the New Testament (Classic Reprint) Book

IN THE NEV TESTAMENT II CHAPTER I THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS ALL the gospels describe the sufferings and death of Christ with a minuteness which has no parallel in their narratives of other events of His life, and they all, to a certain extent, by references to the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy or otherwise, indicate their sense of its meaning and importance. This, however, reveals the mind of the evangelists rather than that of the Lord. It is in His life, rather than in the record of His death itself, that we must look for indications of His mind. But here we are at once confronted with certain preliminary difficulties. Quite apart from the question whether it is possible at all to know what Jesus thought or spoke about His death-a question which it is taken for granted is to be answered in the affirmative-it has been asserted, largely upon general grounds, that Jesus cannot have entered on His ministry with the thought of His death present to Him; that He muTable of Contents CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PAGB; Conception of the New Testament: its unity not; artificial, I; Misused distinctions ~ historical and dogmaticJ; biblical and systematic, material and formal, 4; The death of Christ a real subject in the New; Testament, 8; Outline of study, 9; CHAPTER I; THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS; The mind of Christ and the mind of the evangelists, I I; The idea that our Lord's death must have been; foreign to His mind when He entered on His; work, II; Relation to this idea of the narratives of His Baptism; and Temptation, 13; Significance of the Baptism in particular, 18; The first suggestions of our Lord's death and; allusions to it, 22; The taking away of the Bridegroom (Mark ii 19),; and the sign of Jonah (JvIatt xii 40), 23; The express predictions of the Passion: critical; questions connected with them, â?¢ 26; (Mark viii 31, 1vIark ix 3I, Mark x 32, and parallels); -their historicity, 2Pt; TIlE DEATH OF CHRIST; PAGE; SensRead More