And then there is Jesus of Nazareth, who seems to have enthusiastically embraced a script with a strongly tragic dimension: Now they were on the way up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was leading them . . . And he took the twelve aside again, and began to tell them what was about to happen to him: “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes, who will condemn him to death and deliver him to the Gentiles, who will mock him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him.” (Mark 10:32–34)485
