Mark 8:31 – “And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.”.Did Jesus really not know why he had to die in Mark’s Gospel?īut according to Mark, is Jesus all that doubtful about why he has to die? No, Jesus talks about his imminent demise repeatedly: He is completely calm and in control of the situation he knows what is about to occur, and he knows what will happen afterward…This is a far cry from the Jesus of Mark, who felt forsaken to the end. In this account, Jesus is not at all confused about what is happening to him or why. Jesus, Interrupted p 65-66Įhrman says this stands in sharp contrast with Luke’s calm and collected version of Jesus: He dies in agony, unsure of the reason he must die. He doesn’t want his readers to take solace in the fact that God was really there providing Jesus with physical comfort. Jesus is silent the entire time, as if in shock, until his cry at the end, echoing Psalm 22…Mark is trying to say something by this portrayal. In his book Jesus, Interrupted, Ehrman describes Mark’s account: Skeptical New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman says that Mark and Luke tell two irreconcilably different stories about Jesus’ death.
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