The passion stories take up one-fourth to one-third of the total length of the four Gospels, and biblical interpreters generally agree that the material was shaped by the church’s oral traditions prio...
Matthew 5:17-18, Mark 2:27-28, John 8:58, Luke 4:18-21, Matthew 5:7, John 8:1-11, Luke 24:13-27
Jesus appears in the Gospels as a theologian who begins with a mastery of the tradition and then reshapes it by offering a new vision centered on his own person.