https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP7GTu8tbvQ
JW:
Regarding the possible originality of Secret Mark KK pointed out that the exchange between Jesus and the formerly rich young man (so to speak) lacks the usual Markan literary style of negative, ironic switching. One of the few places in GMark that is relatively straightaway forward and positive is the exchange between the Scribe and Jesus. Maybe this was "Mark's" style that the important parts of GMark were straight forward. The text explicitly says that Jesus declared the Passion Plan "plainly". But when you break down what follows it does contain the typical Markan irony:
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Joseph
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference. - Principal used by Neil Godfree to defend Oct. 7 Gaza War Crimes.
The New Porphyry
JW:
Regarding the possible originality of Secret Mark KK pointed out that the exchange between Jesus and the formerly rich young man (so to speak) lacks the usual Markan literary style of negative, ironic switching. One of the few places in GMark that is relatively straightaway forward and positive is the exchange between the Scribe and Jesus. Maybe this was "Mark's" style that the important parts of GMark were straight forward. The text explicitly says that Jesus declared the Passion Plan "plainly". But when you break down what follows it does contain the typical Markan irony:
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| Verse | Summary | Commentary |
| 28 And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, What commandment is the first of all? | Impressed by Jesus' answer, a scribe asks Jesus a serious question | Again with the switching. An answer prompts a question and the teacher is tested with a question. |
| 29 Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one: 30 and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. 31 The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. | Jesus answers the question. | - |
| 32 And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said that he is one; and there is none other but he: 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices. | The scribe says that the teacher passed the test. | Yikes! There is only God? Sacrifices are relatively unimportant? This does not sound like Paul or orthodox Christianity. Support that the author is indeed making fun of Christianity. |
| 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question | .[/b]By questioning the teaching and declaring that the teacher passed the test, Jesus answers that the questioner passed the test. | After a Gospel of complicated confusing and indirect teachings that always prompted questions rather than acceptance, when Jesus finally gives a simple clear and direct teaching regarding The Kingdom of God, which Jesus announced was the purpose of his mission, no one asks Jesus any more questions. |
Joseph
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference. - Principal used by Neil Godfree to defend Oct. 7 Gaza War Crimes.
The New Porphyry
Statistics: Posted by JoeWallack — Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:50 pm