{"id":942,"date":"2019-06-09T23:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T22:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2019-06-09T23:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T22:37:39","slug":"introducing-marks-gospel-jesus-the-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Mark&#8217;s Gospel &#8211; Jesus the Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<span itemprop=\"description\"><p>2.5\tSpecial theme in Mark \u2013 The Messiah and the Messianic Secret (Mark 1:1)<br \/>\n2.6\tJewish expectations about the Messiah \u2013 God\u2019s end-time redeemer<br \/>\n2.6.1\tA figure like Elijah (from Ecclesiasticus)<br \/>\n2.6.2\tThe Eschatological Prophet \u2013 One like Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15-18)<br \/>\n2.6.3\tGod\u2019s Servant (Isaiah 42:1-7)<br \/>\n2.6.4\tMelchizedek (Qumran community)<br \/>\n2.6.5\tA Messiah like David (Isaiah 9:2-7) \u2013 the most popular expectation<br \/>\n2.7\tDoes Mark present a \u201cMessianic Secret\u201d? (W Wrede 1901)<br \/>\n2.7.1\tJesus commands silence after healings (e.g. Mark 5:43, 7:36) and from demons (on Mark 1:25 and 34 but not on other occasions), and from disciples (e.g. Mark 9:9)<br \/>\n2.7.2\tJesus taught in parables to conceal truth (Mark 4:11)<br \/>\n2.7.3\tBUT most of Jesus\u2019s ministry was very public e.g. feeding 5000. Mark 9:41 is explicit.<br \/>\n2.8\tWhat kind of Messiah was Jesus?<br \/>\n2.8.1\tMessiah would be misunderstood as a political title so Jesus needed to educate his disciples away from mistaken views to understand what kind of Messiah he was, particularly the necessity of his suffering and death (Mark 8:31, 9:30-32, 10:33-34)<br \/>\n2.8.2\tDespite his declaration of faith, Peter clearly still misunderstood (Mark 8:31-33)<br \/>\n2.8.3\tTowards the end Jesus made clear that he was indeed the Messiah. SEE UNIT 15.<br \/>\n2.8.4\tJesus would be the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 52-53. SEE UNIT 16<br \/>\n2.8.5\tJesus was convicted and crucified for being a \u201cmessianic pretender\u201d.  Mark 14:57-64<\/p>\n<span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\"><span itemprop=\"description\">2.5 Special theme in Mark \u2013 The Messiah and the Messianic Secret (Mark 1:1) 2.6 Jewish expectations about the Messiah \u2013 God\u2019s end-time redeemer&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p btn-align-left\"><a class=\"blue zoom-btn\" href=\"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=942\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}