In Mark, Pilot is complicit in the death of Jesus yet in Luke, Pilot deems him innocent and sends him to Herod to be judged. Herod also finds that Jesus does not deserve to be put to death. Luke lays the blame of Jesus’ death more on the high priests and the crowds who called for his crucifixion, than he does the Romans. Unlike Mark’s Jesus, as he is walking to his death in Luke, he comforts the women crying for him and asks God to forgive the people saying “they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). Up until his death Jesus seems to be more concerned about others than he does his own impending death. Luke also has one of the criminals crucified with Jesus tell him that he has done nothing wrong and in a way recognizes that Jesus as the Messiah by saying “remember me when you come into your kingdom” (Luke 23:42) In Mark 15:34 at the ninth hour, Jesus cries out to God asking why he has forsaken him but in Luke at the ninth hour, Jesus says “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit”. Jesus’ final words are a prayer instead of a pained question. Erhman also looks at the differences in how Jesus dies and notes that in Mark, Jesus dies alone and in despair; even God seems to have left him. In Luke, Jesus is willing to die and up until the last moment is forgiving people for their sins and trusting in God. Mark’s Jesus seems almost fearful of death and him asking why God has forsaken him conflicts with Luke’s story of Jesus knowing exactly why this is happening to him and having faith in God and his will. In Mark, Jesus seems doubtful that his death is even necessary while in Luke he never displays any uncertainty over his death. Luke’s Jesus is much stronger and braver than Mark’s and Luke probably revised Jesus in this way to depict him as a martyr and to show Jesus’ own confidence in God. Jesus’ death in Luke is very similar to that of the Jewish martyrs in 4 Maccabees in that they both refuse to give up their beliefs and know that they will suffer a painful death for it. Jesus’s death in Luke mirrors the other great Jewish prophets who were violently killed by their own people.