“This is how readers over the years have come up with the famous “seven last words of the dying Jesus” – by taking what he says at his death in all four Gospels, mixing them together, and imagining that in their combination they now have the full story. This interpretive move does not give the full story.”

“This is how readers over the years have come up with the famous “seven last words of the dying Jesus” – by taking what he says at his death in all four Gospels, mixing them together, and imagining that in their combination they now have the full story. This interpretive move does not give the full story.”

— Bart D. Ehrman