Meet the Storytellers Part 3

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For Mark, Jesus is a somewhat enigmatic figure and that's very
important to his way of telling the story. Jesus is mysterious. Jesus
intentionally keeps people from understanding who he really is, at times.
At times, Jesus actually silences the demons who would announce his
true identity. When he performs a miracle, he tells people, don't say
anything to anyone about what I have done. He even takes the disciples
away, off into a corner, and teaches them privately so that others won't
hear and understand the message. He seems to be a very secretive kind
of figure in Mark's gospel. 2
Our three way marks on our journey have been to think of
CONTENT
CONSTRUCTION
CONTEXT
And we have those very much to hand, too, as we set out on our
journey.
We are going to open Matthew, Mark and Luke - the three synoptic
gospels - and quickly see how that works.
And don’t forget one thing of which we were almost made sure!
MARK CAME FIRST!!
(summation of arguments to follow.)
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L. Michael White: “Scripting Jesus. “ May 2010. Pub by HarperOne