Jesus: a revolutionary biography

probably only) journey to Jerusalem: confronted with the temple's riches, Jesus "symbolically destroyed its brokerage function in the name of the un- brokered kingdom of God" .Happening during the volatile Passover festival, the crucifixion probably came quickly and brutally.But the 'end' was not the end.Crossan detects signs that at least two identifiable groups among Jesus' followers found his ministry still had power in their lives.One group was peasant 'healed healers' who found Jesus' program still having profound results.The other group was literate scribes who found themselves searching the Jewish scriptures for explana- tions of Jesus' death.Crossan believes they found these explanations in ;