05_Eubank_247_268 15/07/14 12:19 Pagina 256 256 NATHAN EUBANK Paschasius Radbertus put it, “the centurion understood something great in the yell”. Second, Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Augustine were defending this interpretation around the same time that the creators of Bezae and other manuscripts were drawing attention to Jesus’ dying yell. This suggests that the scribes who introduced these corruptions were indeed attempting, like Matthew, Luke, and Peter before them, to explain how the centurion could have come to believe Jesus was the son of God 23. 4. Modern Interpreters Modern interpreters have, by and large, perpetuated the long- standing tendency to attempt to find something fantastic in the man- ner of Jesus’ death. For example, Wrede avers that “Markus muss hier meinen, dass der Hauptmann etwas Wunderbares wahrnahm, das ihn zu seinem Bekenntnis zwang. Die Art und Weise des Ster- bens überwältigt ihn. Der Erzähler kann dabei ― nach bekannter Auslegung ― nur an den lauten Schrei des Sterbenden gedacht haben oder an das Zerreissen des Tempelvorhangs” 24. Many recent commentators, such as Raymond Brown, Joel Marcus, and Pheme Perkins, favor the idea that the centurion saw the rending of the temple curtain 25. Others, such as Gundry, emphasize the importance of Jesus’ dying yell 26. Hans-Christian Kammler recently defended this read- ing with no less conviction than patristic and medieval commenta- tors. According to Kammler, Jesus’ dying cry was not an inarticulate cry of a dying man. Rather, it showed “daß Jesus in seiner Passion 23 In light of this evidence it is interesting to note that Matt 27,50 portrays Jesus giving up his spirit (avfh/ken to. pneu/ma) and in Luke 23,46 Jesus quotes Ps 31,5 while handing over his spirit to God (pa,ter( eivj cei/ra,j sou parati,qemai to. pneu/ma, mou). Luke moves in the direction of depicting Jesus laying down his own life, and Matthew may be suggesting the same. 24 W. WREDE, Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien. Zugleich ein Beitrag zum Verständnis des Markusevangeliums (Göttingen 1963) 76. 25 R. BROWN, Death of the Messiah (New York 1994) II, 1145; J. MARCUS, Mark 8–16. A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (AB 27a; New Haven, CT 2009) 1057-1058; P. PERKINS, “The Gospel of Mark”, The New Interpreter’s Bible 8 (Nashville, TN 1995) 724. 26 M. GUNDRY, Mark. A Commentary on his Apology for the Cross (Grand Rapids, MI 1993) 973.