Mark and the Messianic Secret
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- Mark and the Messianic Secret
- Jesus asks people not to reveal his identity.
- When Jesus asks his disciples who they think he is, Jesus commands he keep this a secret.
- When Jesus heals a leper, he tells the man not to tell everyone about this miracle.
- Morna ******: "A tension in the belief of the early church [1st christians] of Jesus as Messiah and the unmessianic character of Jesus' ministry"
- People thought Jesus would be: - A warrior king - the Messiah
- Jesus actually was: -A carpenter's son - A preacher - Iterant - Interacted with outcasts of society
- When Jesus asks his disciples who they think he is, Jesus commands he keep this a secret.
- Jesus teaches in parables to obscure meaning.
- "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything is said in parables."
- Wrede thinks that this means that Jesus is delibrately being mysterious and speaking in parables because he doesn't want ordinary people to know he is the Messiah.
- Wrede has an explanation: Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah.
- Wrede concludes that the passages in Marks Gospel where Jesus admits to being the Messiah are fiction
- Based on Markan Priority.
- Wrede concludes that the passages in Marks Gospel where Jesus admits to being the Messiah are fiction
- Wrede has an explanation: Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah.
- Wrede thinks that this means that Jesus is delibrately being mysterious and speaking in parables because he doesn't want ordinary people to know he is the Messiah.
- Ties in with the Suffering Servant being the Messiah.
- If 1st Century Jews didn't expect the Messiah to be a **, this explains why they didn't think Jesus was the Messiah.
- "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything is said in parables."
- Jesus asks people not to reveal his identity.
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