Editing Passion of Jesus (section)

=== Comprehensive narrative ===
[[File:Bolestný Kristus (poč. 16. stol.), Cheb.jpg|thumb|160px|16th century Bolestný Kristus z Chebu, [[Cheb]], Czech Republic]]
Taking an inclusive approach, the "Passion" may include:
*  [[Triumphal entry into Jerusalem]]: some people welcome Jesus when he enters Jerusalem.
* The [[Cleansing of the Temple]]: Jesus expels livestock merchants and money-changers from the [[Second Temple|Temple of Jerusalem]].
* The [[Anointing of Jesus]] by a woman during a meal a few days before Passover. Jesus says that for this she will always be remembered.
* The [[Last Supper]] shared by Jesus and his disciples in Jerusalem. Jesus gives final instructions, [[Jesus predicts his betrayal|predicts his betrayal]], and tells them all to remember him.
* Jesus predicts the [[Denial of Peter]]: on the path to [[Gethsemane]] after the meal, Jesus tells the disciples they will all fall away that night. After [[Saint Peter|Peter]] protests he will not, Jesus says Peter will deny him thrice before the cock crows.
* The [[Agony in the Garden]]: later that night at Gethsemane, Jesus prays while the disciples rest. [[Luke 22:43–44]] adds that Jesus was terrified, and sweating blood; however, the oldest manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke do not contain these two verses, the other three canonical gospels do not mention this event either, and various manuscripts contain these verses elsewhere, even in the Gospel of Matthew (suggesting repeated attempts at insertion); thus, most modern scholars consider this tradition a later [[Christian interpolation]], probably to counter [[docetism]].<ref name=Aland>{{Cite book |last1=Aland |first1= Kurt |author-link=Kurt Aland |last2=Aland |first2=Barbara |author-link2=Barbara Aland |others=Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) |title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism |publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]] |year=1995 |location=Grand Rapids |page=[https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n332 310] |url=https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt|url-access=limited |isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref><ref>[[Bruce M. Metzger]], ''The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration'' ([[Oxford University Press]]: 2005), p. 286.</ref><ref>[[Bart D. Ehrman]], ''The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture'' ([[Oxford University Press]]: 1993), pp. 187–194</ref>
* The [[Arrest of Jesus]]: then [[Judas Iscariot]] leads in either "a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and [[Pharisees]]"<ref>{{bibleverse||John|18:3}}</ref> (accompanied according to Luke's Gospel by the chief priests and elders),<ref>{{bible verse||Luke|22:52}}</ref> or a "large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and elders of the people,"<ref>{{bible verse||Matthew|26:48}}</ref><ref>{{bibleverse||Mark|14:43}}</ref> which arrests Jesus; all his disciples run away. During the arrest in Gethsemane, someone (Peter according to John) takes a sword and cuts off the ear of the high priest's servant, Malchus.
* The [[Sanhedrin trial of Jesus]] at the high priest's palace, later that night. The arresting party brings Jesus to the [[Sanhedrin]] (Jewish supreme court); according to Luke's Gospel, Jesus is beaten by his Jewish guards prior to his examination;<ref>{{bible verse||Luke|22:63}}</ref> the court examines him, in the course of which, according to John's Gospel, Jesus is struck in the face by one of the Jewish officials;<ref>{{bibleverse||John|18:22}}</ref> the court determine he deserves to die. According to Matthew's Gospel, the court then "[[Mocking of Jesus#First stage|spat in his face and struck him with their fists]]."<ref>{{bible verse||Matthew|26:67}}</ref> They then send him to [[Pontius Pilate]]. According to the synoptic gospels, the high priest who examines Jesus is [[Caiaphas]]; in John, Jesus is also interrogated by [[Annas]], Caiaphas' father-in-law.
* The [[Denial of Peter]] in the courtyard outside the high priest's palace, the same time. Peter has followed Jesus and joined the mob awaiting Jesus' fate; they suspect he is a sympathizer, so Peter repeatedly denies he knows Jesus. Suddenly, the cock crows and Peter remembers what Jesus had said.
* [[Pilate's court|Pilate's trial of Jesus]], early morning. [[Pontius Pilate]], the Roman governor of Judea, questions Jesus, but cannot find any fault with him (according to some gospels, Pilate explicitly declares Jesus's innocence); however, the Jewish leaders and the crowd demand Jesus' death; Pilate gives them the choice of saving [[Barabbas]], a criminal, or saving Jesus. In response to the screaming mob Pilate sends Jesus out to be crucified.
* The [[Stations of the Cross|Way of the Cross]]: Jesus and two other convicts are forced to walk to their place of execution. According to the Synoptics, [[Simon of Cyrene]] is forced to carry Jesus's cross, while John writes that Jesus carried his cross himself.
* The [[Crucifixion of Jesus]]: Jesus and the two other convicts are nailed to crosses at [[Golgotha]], a hill outside Jerusalem, later morning through mid afternoon. Various [[sayings of Jesus on the cross]] are recorded in the gospels before he dies.
* The [[Burial of Jesus]]: the body of Jesus is [[Descent from the Cross|taken down from the cross]] and put in a tomb by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] (and [[Nicodemus]] according to John).
* The [[Resurrection of Jesus]]: Jesus rises from the dead, leaving behind an [[empty tomb]] and reportedly [[Resurrection of Jesus#Biblical accounts|appearing to several of his followers]].