The stories of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection in the gospels of Mark and Peter differ greatly. Each author has their own plot, descriptive language, audience, and characterization of Jesus. What we know about Jesus and how he is depicted changes from one gospel to the next. For example, the Gospel of Mark uses many Jewish references and draws parallels to the Old Testament, which was most likely intended to benefit a Jewish audience. Furthermore, the Jesus in Mark's gospel is characterized as more divine, corresponding to the expectations of the Jewish community. However, the Gospel of Peter appears to entertain both pagan and Jewish audiences, using language that either group can relate to. Peter's Jesus is strangely depicted and more akin to what we might consider superhuman rather than divine. The most obvious differences between the crucifixion and resurrection stories of the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Peter lie in their plots. These differences indeed change our conceptions of Jesus. In the Gospel of Mark it begins with Jesus before Pilate, but in the Gospel of Peter it begins with a sort of council between Pontius Pilate and Herod. In the Gospel of Mark we see Jesus judged and accused of many things. Pilate asks Jesus: “Are you the king of the Jews? and Jesus responds, “You say so,” and we see a Jesus who is above slander and empty accusations. (Mark 15.2) In saying this, Jesus never admits anything. Although he accepts what they do to him; he makes no comment on the veracity of the accusations or rumors about him. A position that lets us know that Jesus is taking the high road. However, in the Gospel of Peter we do not have the luxury of starting from such a conception, in fact we do not even see Jesus in the middle of a paper...... lived. In Mark, there are these Jewish nuances that make Jesus a divine and respectable figure who suffered so much during his passion, his crucifixion and his resurrection. In Peter we have a strange vision of Jesus. He can be seen as a human with extraordinary gifts and supernatural events simply happened around him. In Pierre, there were also even crazier phenomena that we do not see in the canonical texts. An example of this phenomenon would be when a floating cross would appear and then start talking. The two texts present these very different views of Jesus while at the same time proposing questions that are not really possible to answer definitively. The only thing that is certain is that Mark and Peter used their plots and language to actually influence how their audience perceives Jesus. Jesus was emphasized as more divine in Mark and more human in Peter.