Introduction to the Gospel of Mark

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Resumen

TLDRMark's gospel emphasizes Jesus as a suffering Messiah, contrasting with common expectations of a miracle worker. It highlights the imperfections of the disciples, demonstrating that true discipleship involves facing challenges and taking up one's cross. Written for a Greco-Roman audience during a time of persecution, it presents Jesus's crucifixion as a significant symbol of kingship. The narrative conveys urgency and immediacy, leaving the readers to contemplate the ongoing journey of faith in uncertain times.

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  • ✝️ Mark emphasizes Jesus as a suffering Messiah.
  • 🤔 Disciples are portrayed as imperfect and flawed.
  • ⚡ Urgency and immediacy pervade the narrative.
  • 👑 Jesus's crucifixion symbolizes his kingship.
  • 📜 Mark is aimed at a Greco-Roman audience.
  • 🛤️ Discipleship demands taking up one's cross.
  • ⏳ The ending leaves the future uncertain.
  • 📅 Written around the time of the Jewish revolt.
  • 💬 Faith is a continual struggle.
  • 🔍 Jesus's identity is profound and complex.

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    Mark's gospel emphasizes Jesus as a suffering Messiah rather than a miracle worker, countering common expectations. Discipleship is portrayed realistically, with disciples often appearing foolish and flawed, highlighting the struggles of following Jesus in difficult times. The gospel conveys a sense of urgency and immediacy, aimed at a Greco-Roman audience, presenting Jesus as a secretive Messiah who seeks to ransom lives from evil. His crucifixion, marked by the title 'King of the Jews,' symbolizes a paradoxical kingship, illustrating the true nature of his Messiahship. Mark suggests that following Jesus is complex and challenging, leaving the narrative open-ended to reflect the ongoing journey of faith amidst persecution.

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  • What does Mark's gospel teach about Jesus's identity?

    Mark emphasizes Jesus as a suffering Messiah whose ultimate role is to suffer and die for humanity.

  • How does Mark portray the disciples?

    Mark depicts the disciples as often flawed and bumbling, emphasizing their imperfections and struggles in following Jesus.

  • What genre does Mark's gospel represent?

    Mark combines elements of Greco-Roman biography with a new approach to inspire belief and devotion to Jesus.

  • What is the significance of Jesus's crucifixion in Mark's gospel?

    Jesus's crucifixion is depicted as a moment of kingship, where he is crowned as the King of the Jews.

  • When was Mark's gospel likely written?

    Mark's gospel was likely written around the time of the Jewish revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70.

  • What message does Mark convey about discipleship?

    Discipleship requires taking up one's cross and persevering through challenges and persecution.

  • What is the tone of Mark's gospel?

    The gospel has a tone of urgency and immediacy, focusing on the importance of Jesus's actions and teachings.

  • What does Mark leave ambiguous at the end of the gospel?

    Mark's ending leaves the future unclear, suggesting that the journey of faith continues amid difficulties.

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    So what is Mark's gospel emphasize? Well, first of all, let's talk about Mark's Christology or his
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    understanding of Jesus's being the Christ or the Messiah, right? This is a technical word
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    Christology, his understanding of Jesus's role or function as the Messiah as the Christ. For Jesus
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    and mark right, his identity as a suffering Messiah could be easily misunderstood, because of
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    all of the wild, crazy, miraculous stuff he does. But it seems, as I mentioned, that Mark wants us
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    to understand Jesus not portraying himself as a healer and a teacher and a miracle worker first
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    and foremost, but rather as a suffering Messiah. Someone whose ultimate job is as a Messiah is to
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    suffer and die for people a totally new concept for most people, certainly, you know, for what
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    they would have expected. And the second emphasis is on discipleship. What does it really mean to
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    follow Jesus? What does being his disciple really look like? Notice that the disciples in this
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    gospel do not come off looking super great. The disciples actually kind of end up like, oftentimes
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    kind of bumbling fools, right? They're arguing about who's the greatest. They are pushing the
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    children away when Jesus has already said, Let the little kids come to me, right? I mean, they just
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    don't seem to get it. Judas betrays him. Peter denies knowing him, right? This is not a great
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    image of the disciples. This is not the sort of holy saints that you might have assumed, right?
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    Part of what Mark I think is trying to get at is this is a context of terror, right? Remember, Mark
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    is probably being written in and around or just after the, the Jewish revolt and the crushing of
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    Rome, perhaps just before Rome is ultimately- Excuse me, the crushing by Rome of Jerusalem and
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    the temple in the year 70. So things are bad for Jesus's followers, right? What does it look like?
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    Does it look like you're perfect? No, it looks like Peter and James and John, who were kind of
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    bumbling fools at times, right? We're not going to be perfect here. But following Jesus requires that
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    we take up our own cross and follow in very difficult times. This is a challenging document
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    for those who would be followers of Jesus. Things finally, to consider, right? One, the gospel is
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    very much giving a flavor of urgency and immediacy to what's happening with Jesus, right? And,
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    everything about the gospel is fast, it's action packed, it's this all matters, right? Again, we
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    talked about Mark being mostly the context of a Greco Roman, probably mostly non Jewish audience.
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    This is the first gospel ever written, most likely something kind of new, right? It has the genre
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    markings at some level of Greco Roman biography that would have been popular and well known in and
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    around Jesus's day. But it's something a little bit new, because those Greco Roman biographies
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    were not designed to get you to believe in this person, and to devote your entire life and assume
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    that the history of the world is all kind of wrapped up in the person that's being described in
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    the document that's fairly new, right? Jesus again, is a secretive Messiah, because he doesn't
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    want you to believe in him as a power worker, as a miracle worker. He wants you to believe in him as
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    someone who is here to ransom lives from the sphere of evil that we have.
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    Again, the suffering Son of Man gives his life as a ransom for many, for us. The interesting thing
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    on the cross, of course, is that he is crowned, right? Notice there's a there's a sign overhead
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    that says this is the king of the Jews, right? In a sense, he's crowned when he's hanging, dying on
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    the cross. This is a very symbolically important image I think for Mark. He wants to say this is
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    your Messiah, this is your king, the one who is actually dying for you. Okay. It's a very odd
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    image of kingship. But for him, this is exactly what Jesus his Messiahship means. Again, we talked
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    about the disciples as being less than ideal examples, probably written during the time of
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    persecution in the year roughly 70 or somewhere between 65 and 73, something like that. And Mark
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    leaves the ending hanging suggesting that the future is still to be lived out still to be found
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    out. What does it look like to follow this guy in the absence of clear indications that this is
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    going to be easy in any stretch of the imagination.
Etiquetas
  • Mark's Gospel
  • Christology
  • Suffering Messiah
  • Discipleship
  • Urgency
  • Crucifixion
  • Greco-Roman context
  • Imperfection of Disciples
  • Faith
  • Persecution