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so it's the suffering of Jesus that happens at his arrest,
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his trial, his crucifixion, and then the resurrection.
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All of that's part of what scholars call the passion narrative.
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If you notice,
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that occupies a huge part of the Gospel of Mark.
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The Gospel of Mark is our shortest Gospel that's in the canon.
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It's only sixteen chapters,
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of course the chapters and verse numbers
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weren't there in the original manuscripts, it was just written.
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In fact, they didn't even divide up words,
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and they have very little punctuation.
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It was just one capital letter after another,