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In Genesis 18:23–33, Abraham bargains with God to save the righteous citizens of Sodom, which God has pledged to destroy. To intensify the grimness of this scene, we might imagine Jonah attempting the same thing in reverse: “If I find, say, 50 unrepentant sinners in Nineveh, then will you destroy it?”
The first three Gospels are called “synoptic” because they can viewed together when they are printed in columns. Judaic documents also present synoptic relationships, but the similar order of passages in the Synoptic Gospels is especially striking. In my judgment, that common order reflects a widely used model of baptismal instruction within the early Church.
See David Noel Freedman, “The Nine Commandments: The Secret Progress of Israel’s Sins,” BR 05:06.
Alan R. Millard, “Re-creating the Tablets of the Law,” BR 10:01.
Lawrence Stager, “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02.
