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Mark and the Life—and Death—of Jesus

For Mark, belief in Jesus as the powerful messianic teacher and worker of miracles was not the point. Jesus is ultimately something very different.

By Helmut Koester

Mark’s Gospel provides the readings for the Sunday gospels in most churches this year. After the Sunday of Pentecost, the readings will take the worshiper from the story of the Plucking of Grain on the Sabbath (Mark 2:23–28), through the Beelzebub Controversy (Mark 3:23–30), the Stilling of the Tempest (Mark 4:35–41), Jesus’ Rejection at Nazareth (Mark 6:1–6), the Controversy about Clean and Unclean (Mark 7:1–23), and Jesus’ Teaching about Divorce (Mark 10:2–16), to Jesus’ ministry in Jerusalem at the end of his career (Mark 12:28–44, 13:1–13). All these stories create an image of a powerful and successful prophet and […]

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