221 ON JESUS’ LAST WEEK(S) Matt 24,15-16 Mark 13,14 Luke 21,20-22 15 When you see the “des- 14 When you see the “des- 20 But when you see Jerusa- olating sacrilege”- spoken olating sacrilege” lem surrounded by armies, of by the prophet Daniel then know that its desola- standing in the holy place standing where it ought not tion has come near to be, let the reader understand, let the reader understand; 16 then let those who are then let those who are in 21 then let those who are in Judea flee to the moun- Judea flee to the mountains in Judea flee to the moun- tains. tains, and let those who are in- side the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it. 22 For these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. Table 2. — Foretelling the ruin. It is noteworthy that Marcion (ca. 85-160) omits most of the passages quoted here: Luke 19,29-46 (Jesus’ messianic entry; his weeping over Jerusalem and the cleansing the Temple) as well as 19,21-22. Consistent with his dating of the canonical form of the Gospels to the Ist cent., Harnack followed Tertullian and Epi- phanius in asserting that these and many other passages were pur- poseful suppressions 30. But since no addition or “sectarian” reworking have been detected, it may well be that Marcion’s Lukan version was just an early stage of that Gospel 31. II. The Christianized Passover as a Gate to the Kingdom The last problem to deal with is the most important. Why did the Gospels condense so many events into a single day, while a See A. von HARNACK, Marcion. Das Evangelium vom fremden Gott 30 (Leipzig 1921) 208*-213*. See M. KLINGHARDT, “‘Gesetz’ bei Markion und Lukas”, Das Gesetz im 31 frühen Judentum und im Neuen Testament. Festschrift für Christoph Burchard (eds. D. SÄNGER – M. KONRADT) (NTOA 57; Göttingen 2006) 99-128.