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On more than a dozen occasions in this provocative book, Scot McKnight claims the Gospels are exaggerating. Some of these exaggerations, of numbers and geographical reach, he regards as relatively minor and forgivable. Others he says are dangerous and must be resisted: those relating to the theological differences between Jesus and the Pharisees, for example, or regarding the individuals responsible for the execution of Jesus. (McKnight argues the latter exaggerations escalate chronologically, from Mark to Matthew to Luke and Acts and finally to John, with each blaming the Jews more than
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