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Having crossed the Jordan, Jesus teaches the assembled crowd in his customary way, answering a question from the Pharisees about divorce. C. M. Tuckett suggests that Mark 8:34-10:45 constitutes a broad section of the gospel dealing with Christian discipleship and that this pericope on divorce (verses 1-12) "is not out of place" within it, although he notes that some other commentators have ...
The taking of a staff and sandals is permitted in Mark 6:8–9 but prohibited in Matthew 10:9–10 and Luke 9:3. Only Mark refers to Herod Antipas as a king; [92] Matthew and Luke refer to him (more properly) as a tetrarch. [93] The longest version of the story of Herodias' daughter's dance and the beheading of John the Baptist. [94] Mark's ...
Jesus and the rich young man. Jesus and the rich young man (also called Jesus and the rich ruler) is an episode in the life of Jesus recounted in the Gospel of Matthew 19:16–30, the Gospel of Mark 10:17–31 and the Gospel of Luke 18:18–30 in the New Testament. It deals with eternal life [ 1][ 2] and the world to come.
Healing the blind near Jericho. Each of the three Synoptic Gospels tells of Jesus healing the blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly before his passion . The Gospel of Mark tells of the curing of a man named Bartimaeus, healed by Jesus as he is leaving Jericho. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke include different ...
Jesus teaching in the Temple, illustration from Standard Bible Story Readers, 1928. Since 1980, scholars have debated the translation and modern relevance of New Testament texts on homosexuality. [ 1] Three distinct passages ( Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (repeated in 1 Timothy 1:9–10) and Jude 1:7) have been taken to condemn same ...
The Secret Gospel of Mark or the Mystic Gospel of Mark [1] ( Biblical Greek: τοῦ Μάρκου τὸ μυστικὸν εὐαγγέλιον, romanized: tou Markou to mystikon euangelion ), [a] [3] also the Longer Gospel of Mark, [4] [5] is a putative longer and secret or mystic version of the Gospel of Mark. The gospel is mentioned ...
Textual variants in the Gospel of Mark are the subject of the study called textual criticism of the New Testament. Textual variants in manuscripts arise when a copyist makes deliberate or inadvertent alterations to a text that is being reproduced. [1] : 251–271 An abbreviated list of textual variants in this particular book is given in this ...
Jesus' scriptural understanding of John the Baptist's death in Mark 9:11-13; Two Sabbath controversies in Mark 2:23-3:6; The question of Jacob [= James] and John in Mark 10:35-45; and; Jesus' final Passover with his disciples in Mark 14:12-26; Chapter 7 shows his arguments for dating the putative written Aramaic source for Mark to around 40 C.E.