Review · The Passion: The story of Jesus’s trial, death, and resurrection provides us with an excellent opportunity to test historical tradition in the Fourth Gospel, since so much of John’s passion narrative overlaps with the Synoptics. The New Testament scholar C. H. Dodd even began his magisterial volume with a study of this section (see Dodd). Nevertheless, the Johannine account has had to weather various criticisms. Scholars have noted how John places all guilt on the Jews while leaving Pilate innocent. (In Luke, however, Pilate announces Jesus’s innocence three times; see Luke 23:4, 14, 22.) Further, we can note how John theologically reshapes a story of agony into a story of victory and glory (note 18:36). John is no doubt emphasizing themes important to him when, for instance, the …