Questions tagged [mark]
An account of the life of Jesus from his baptism to the discovery of his empty tomb. Often held to be the earliest gospel, written by John Mark, and using Peter as a primary source.
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Why does Jesus repeat the predicament of Old Wine-skin in Mk 2:22?
Jesus says in Mk 2:22(DARBY):
And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into ...
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Does Mark Imply that Certain Scribes of the Pharisees Followed Christ? (Mark 2:15-16) [closed]
In the majority of manuscripts we see a conjunction ignored by the NA28.
This conjunction is present in the absolute majority of manuscripts, including 01 and even the 4th century P88. There is one ...
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Does the Alexandrian Text of Mark 2:4 Contain an Error?
In Mark 2:4, the NA28 prints the following reading:
καὶ μὴ δυνάμενοι προσενέγκαι αὐτῷ δ��ὰ τὸν ὄχλον
“And not being able to bring [him] to Him because of the crowd…”
However, this appears to raise a ...
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Is τὰ in Mark 2:2 indicating people or things?
Mark 2:2 NA28: καὶ συνήχθησαν πολλοὶ ὥστε μηκέτι χωρεῖν μηδὲ τὰ πρὸς τὴν θύραν, καὶ ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς τὸν λόγον.
I'm striving to have a precisely thorough translation. Is the neuter plural article here ...
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What is God's Kingdom with power '? [duplicate]
Mk 9:1-3 :
And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”After six days Jesus took Peter, James ...
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Does the unclean spirit distinguish between Jesus and God in Mark 5:7?
Mark 5:7 (KJV)
“And cried out with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.”
If the unclean spirit ...
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What is the significance of the "young man" in Mark 14:51-52?
Mark 14:51-52 seems to be an odd out of place passage with no real significance:
Jesus Arrested
A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled ...
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What does "no one" and "now in this time" in Mark 10:29-30 mean?
Mark 10:29-30 YLT
And Jesus answering said, 'Verily I say to you, there is no one who
left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or
children, or fields, for my sake, and for ...
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"And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory", Mark 13:26. As a human but yet spiritual vision, or celestial?
To some this may come across as somewhat of a speculative Q. and will no doubt bring about accusations of "duplication", the "Markan" verse having been well adjudicated already. ...
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Is the shape of the mark in Ezekiel 9:4 specified anywhere in the text both Hebrew and Septuagint text?
Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations
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Was Jesus praising the widow’s radical giving, or criticizing an exploitative system?
Mark 12:44 King James Version (KJV)
“For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.”
When Jesus praised the poor widow for ...
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If God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, how can Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob still be considered alive?
Mark 12:26–27 King James Version (KJV):
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and ...
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Why did Jesus command silence about his miracles, if people inevitably spread the news because of their experience?
Mark 7:36 (KJV)
"And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;"
Why did Jesus command silence about his ...
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The Argument from Order predicting Markan Posteriority
In an earlier post by user Hold To The Rod, he argued that, when Malcolm Lowe examined the Argument from Order mathematically and through formal logic, he showed that the explanatory power of each ...
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Why do Jesus’ interlocutors in Mark 12:14 call Him ‘True,’ and how might this title implicitly reveal a messianic identity?
Mark 12:14 (KJV)
“And they sent unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. And when they were come, they said unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and ...