“Easter completes the archetypal pattern at the center of the Christian life: death and resurrection, crucifixion and vindication. Both parts of this pattern are essential: death and resurrection, crucifixion and vindication. When one is emphasized over the other distortion is the result. The two must be affirmed equally.”
Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan in The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem
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