Commentary on Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
At least one part of this passage is straightforward, although [...]
At least one part of this passage is straightforward, although [...]
Structurally, complaints or quarrels supply a punctuation mark between subsections of this text (for example, [...]
In this section of the Bread Discourse, the dispute “chews” on Jesus’ flesh. Was this [...]
The reading begins with one of the most well-known “I [...]
Our narrator hints that even though the crowd “finds” Jesus, they don’t comprehend who he [...]
Our narrator places the Bread Discourse in the middle of the Book of Signs (John [...]
The disciples return from the mission (Mark 6:30-31) Mark reported [...]
The report of John’s death, Jesus’ mentor (see Mark 1:9), was the end of innocence [...]
Before Mark reports John the Baptist’s death, the only story in which Jesus is not [...]
One of Mark’s favorite writing habits is to place two stories in a sandwiched relationship [...]