Investigation of How Mark Shows the Difference Between Jesus and the Pharisees Over the Observance of the Sabbath

When I read Mark during church we would read the long ending, at the time I didn’t know the difference between the endings. I was confused to why there were three different parts to it and they were broken up as if they were supposed to be a new verse. When I asked the leader of the class she couldn’t give me an explanation. With the research I have done I feel that I have come to a conclusion as to which ending is the most correct and why there are multiple endings.

This superficial view is expanded in Theissen’s book by showing Jesus’ teachings and actions on the Sabbath and how they received by the Pharisees. In The Shadow of the Galilean Andreas encounters a family with a sick child who is desperate for the messiah to come and heal her. Andreas offers his assistance by telling them of a Greek doctor who is a few hours away, and that this doctor can come and try to heal their daughter. However, a problem arises because the day they want to go and retrieve this doctor is on the Sabbath, and so two Pharisees come and tell them that they are forbidden to go on the sabbath. This causes a debate as to what is permissible on the Sabbath day.

While both books of Mark and Matthew portray Peter as one of the most important followers of Jesus, Mark seems to emphasize Jesus' spiritual career unlike the broad, more in-depth pursuit of Jesus' life that Matthew embellishes on. As both Jesus' student and friend, Peter is the one disciple most commonly referred to in the stories. Yet the two passages seem to draw different pictures of Jesus' distinguished disciple. In Matthew, Peter seems to play a larger role in Jesus' teachings and seems more significant to Jesus throughout the book. In Mark, he is still important, but to a lesser extent in the eyes of the author. Mark leaves Peter out of a few of the stories altogether and only touches

In the Gospel of Mark, Mark discloses the life of Jesus and his embodiment of God’s Kingdom. Throughout his Gospel, Mark focuses on accurately revealing Jesus’ identity to his readers, and explaining why Jesus was destined to die on the Cross. Mark uses his role as an arranger by employing a diverse array of literary tactics to highlight the lessons of his narrative. One of the most effective of these devices is intercalation—the process of sandwiching one story between the beginning and ending of a separate story. For most people, this tactic would at first appear as impractical or senseless; however, through this process Mark is able to convey a deeper meaning in the lessons he is hoping to share through the life of Jesus, and what it infers about the nature of God’s Kingdom. One of the most notable examples of intercalation in the Gospel of Mark is seen in Mark 5:21-43: the story of the raising of Jairus’ twelve-year-old daughter and the woman who suffered from hemorrhages. Through the intercalation of these two passages, Mark is able to express that the boundaries of God’s Kingdom expand beyond social status and wealth, and that faith alone is all that is needed to be a part of His divine realm.

The gospel of Mark is a short recollection of Jesus life, it has many details but is missing pieces or additions to his life. The Gospel of mark was said to have lost pieces, and also the first account of Jesus life. Although it is not as detailed in some areas as it is in others, it tells many accounts of Jesus life on earth and what kind of a person he was, the life he lived, his struggles and his ending.

Both Mark and Matthew also agree with each other on parts of the story of marriage and divorce. In both Mark 10:2 and Matthew 19:2, it is written, “Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked.” Because of the exact word for word description of the Pharisees test of Jesus in both Mark and Matthew, it can be concluded that either were written

In the gospel of Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, and 21-23 the Pharisees notice that Jesus’ disciples are eating without washing their hands. The Pharisees found this unusual because they wouldn’t eat until their hands were clean, which was the tradition of the elders that they had followed. However the Pharisees would not only cleanse their hands. They also cleaned their jugs, kettles, beds, and even themselves after returning from the market. So when they saw that the disciples were eating with unclean hands, they asked Jesus why the disciples didn’t follow tradition as they did. Jesus responded saying to the Pharisees that they disregard the commandments, yet they honor human tradition. Jesus then gathered the crowd and said to them that nothing that

To accept the Markan Priority one must first denounce the word of Jesus, “that the Holy Spirit would bring all things back to their remembrance”; the testimonies of the early church leaders and historical facts. Also, if Matthew and Luke were present at the same time that Mark was present, why would they need to use Mark’s account?[7] Some authors believe that

Pharisees as teachers associated with different practices of different Jewish teachings of Torah, oral traditions, deriving the Jewish Bible, and the Christian Old Testament that lead into an acceptable sect that survived. The destruction of the temple in 70 CE brought about Jewish sect that ended the diversity among the Jews. As a result, the Pharisees were one to survive. Their leadership led to new customs as they found a new identity and standards through: Judaism having exile apart from the land and the temple, they already had their importance settle within the new traditions, and finally, they were in charge to set new customs of Jewish life.

Through time, people have made choices that have not been considered “socially acceptable” by their peers. From one choice, these peers will shun, bully and ridicule. In Cold Sassy Tree, Rucker Blakeslee tested the society’s limits when he remarried to a young woman, Miss Love Simpson, shortly after the death of his first wife. The town found it repulsive that a man would not wait a couple years, much less a couple months before even thinking about remarrying. Miss Love and Rucker made their choice, although everyone in town was critical of the choice they made. The young couple was judged by Cold Sassy due to the choice they made was not a choice anyone else in town would consider. Why is it socially unacceptable to compose an unpopular decision?

In this paper, I am writing about the Gospel of Mark. The Gospel of Mark is the shortest Gospel, but is a really cool one. It covers a lot of key events that happened during Jesus’ lifetime. After reading the chapters, we pointed out things that stood out to us, which we thought were strange or interesting. We also pointed out spiritual lessons that taught us about our faith. We also wrote down questions that we had about the material.

The healing of the impotent man on the Sabbath proved to the turning point of the Jewish authority’s wrath towards Jesus. While Genesis 2:2-3 teaches that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jewish rabbis agreed that God continually upheld the universe, yet without breaking the Sabbath. If God was above Sabbath regulations, so was Jesus (Matthew 12). His enemies charged him not only with sabbath-breaking, but blasphemy, in calling God his own Father, and identifying his equality with God in nature. Jesus begins to refute their accusations as he states, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” (John 5:17). All things have been committed to the Son. Anyone who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

This research assignment aims to analyse and interpret an influential part of the New Testament – Mark’s Gospel. An analysis of Mark and his community will be discussed as well as interpreting Jesus’ teachings and his significant theme of Discipleship as it was then and in present society.

Mark: The Gospel of Mark tells the story of Jesus Christ’s life from when he was baptized by John the Baptist until the days of his death, and his resurrection. Mark was the second of four Gospels although some Scholars argue and insist Mark was the first Gospel written 1. Mark was written by John Mark in AD 65, with a target audience of Roman Christian beleivers 2. Mark was written in a unique manner in regards to literary genre, as it contains figures of speech, and portray life situations in a passionate story like setting that can make the reader feel as if he is there 3. The Gospel of Mark is the shortest of the four Gospels, however it is written in a manner that emphasizes more so on Jesus’s works than Jesus’s words 4. The key theme in Mark is to portray the life of Jesus Christ as the son of God 5, and the purpose was to show the human qualities and emotions that Jesus displayed from anger (Mark 3:5), and compassion (Mark 1:41). Some of the key events of Jesus Christ’s life in the Gospel Mark include his miracles, his entrance into Jerusalem, the last supper, his arrest and trial, his crucifixion, his resurrection, and his ascension 6. The Gospel of Mark ends with his instruction to the eleven Apostles “And he said unto them “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation” (Mark 16:16), and his ascension into Heaven (Mark 16:19).

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the first books of the New Testament within the Bible, The Gospels as they are so called. The words of the Gospels tell of the teachings of Jesus and his disciples and they bring the word of God to others through the land. Now, the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called synoptic gospels as they are all very similar as to the way the stories are structured, worded, and similarity in context. As for the book of John, this book differs a bit with its structure being different than the 3 before and also its perception, or depiction, of Christ.