The Gospel of Mark Part 2

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The Gospel of MarkPart 2

• Christology
• understanding christ
• Soteriology
• considering salvation
• Eschatology
• concerning end times

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christology

• Jesus the Human (ex. 1)
• 3.5 Looking around at them with anger and grieved
  at their hardness of heart . . .
• 6.5 So he was not able to perform any mighty deed
  there . . .
• 1016 Then he embraced them and blessed them,
  placing his hands on them.
• 1021 Jesus, looking at him, loved him . . .
• 1040 . . . but to sit at my right hand or at my
  left is not mine to give . . .
• 1332 But of that day or hour, no one knows, . .
  . nor the Son, but only the Father
• Ch. 14-15 The Passion

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christology

• Son of God
• 1.1 The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
  Son of God
• 1.11 And a voice came from heaven, You are my
  beloved Son . . .
• 1.21-28 the demoniac of Capernaum
• 2.5-12 Jesus forgives the sins of the paralytic
• 9.7 . . . then from the cloud came a voice,
  This is my beloved Son, hear him.
• 15.39 When the centurion who stood facing him saw
  how he breathed his last he said, Truly this man
  was the Son of God.

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christology

• Son of Man
• 210 But that you may know that the Son of Man
  has authority to forgive sins on earth . . .
• 228 That is why the Son of Man is lord even of
  the sabbath.
• 831 He began to teach them that the Son of Man
  must suffer . . .
• 838 Whoever is ashamed of me . . . the Son of
  Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his
  Father's glory with the holy angels.
• 99 he charged them not to relate what they had
  seen to anyone, except when the son of Man had
  risen from the dead.
• 912 yet, how is it written regarding the Son of
  Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated
  with contempt?
  
  
• 1045 For the Son of Man did not come to be
  served but to serve and to give his life as a
  ransom for many.
  
  
• 1326 the Son of Man coming on the clouds with
  great power and glory
  
• 1421 For the son of man indeed goes, as it is
  written of him, but woe to that man by whom the
  Son of Man is betrayed.
  
  
• 1441 The hour has come. Behold, the Son of
  Man is to be handed over to sinners.

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Mark's Christology
Titles in sequence 11 Christ, Son of God 111
Son of God 210 Son of Man 228 Son of Man 311
Son of God 57 Son of God 831 Son of Man 838
Son of Man 99 Son of Man 931 Son of Man 941
Christ 1033 Son of Man 1045 Son of Man 1047-48
Son of David 1235 Christ, Lord, Son of David
1321 Christ 1326 Son of Man 1332 Son of
Man 1421 Son of Man 1441 Son of Man 1461-62
Christ, Son of God, Son of Man 152-25 King of
Israel 1532 Christ, King of Israel 1539 Son of
God
Christological Titles Christ/Messiah (11
829 941 1235 1321 1461 1532) Son of
God (11 311, 1539), equivalent to Son of
the Most High God (57) My Son, the Beloved
(111 97) Holy One of God (124) Son of the
Blessed One (1461) Son of Man (210, 28 831,
38 99,31 1033.45 1326, 32 1421, 41, 62
etc.) Lord (1235-37) Son of David (1047-48
1235) King of Israel (152-25 1532)
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Mark's Christology

• Jesus as Mark understood him
• the Messiah , the Son of God and Son of Man,
• sent to serve, to save and to judge
• Christ
• demands discipleship (faith and service)
• is greater than David,
• an eschatological figure,
• the Son of God

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Mark's Soteriology

• Eternal Son of God, eschatological Son of Man,
  the suffering messiah whose chastisement made us
  whole (Is. 53.5).
• Servant Songs of Isaiah Is. 421-7, 491-7,
  504-9, 5213-5312
• conspiracy against Jesus 36 1118 141-2
  10-11
• predictions of the passion 831, 931, 1033-34
• discipleship models salvation 834-38, 939-41,
  1029-31, 42-45
• forgiveness 1123-25
• Faith 25, 440, 534, 1052, 1122
• Salvation the establishment of a new order - the
  rending of the veil and the exclamation of the
  centurion 1538-39
• The evidence of faith the ability to recognize
  and acclaim the true nature of Jesus Christ and,
  in consequence, being willing to serve and to
  suffer in discipleship to Christ.

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Mark's Eschatology

• Imminent Parousia
• 132, 14 the destruction of the Temple and the
• 'desolating abomination' - Dan. 927 (1131,
  1211,
• 1 Mac 159)
• 1330 this generation will not pass away
• 1332 the hour is not known
• references to destruction of Jerusalem or to
  coming of the Son of Man?
• Kingdom of God
• 115 411, 26, 30 91, 47 1014-15, 23-25
  1110 1234 1425 1543