Jesus… Musings on Mark: Jesus’ Origin Story in Mark 5 Dec 2018November 28, 2018 Every superhero has a back story, a tale about what made them the way they are. My favorite superhero is DC's Batman. What disturbing thing happened to him that made…
God… Musings on Mark: A Closer Look at Mark 6:45-52, part 2 24 Oct 2018October 21, 2018 In the last "Musings on Mark" we began taking a closer look at Mark 6:45-52. Today we finish up looking at that passage. "He Intended to Pass Them By" We…
Jesus… Musings on Mark: A Closer Look at Mark 6:45-52, part 1 17 Oct 2018October 18, 2018 In the last post in the "Musings on Mark" series we did a brief overview the three different versions of the episode wherein Jesus walks on water that we found in…
Gospel of John… Musings on Mark: Mark vs Matthew vs John on Jesus Walking on Water 3 Oct 2018October 3, 2018 One of the few stories shared by both the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John is the story of Jesus walking upon water. (Well, almost all of the Synoptics…
Characters in Mark… Musings on Mark: The Demise of John the Baptist 26 Sep 2018September 21, 2018 The story of the death of John the Baptist feels like a hiccup in the narrative flow of Mark's Gospel. In 6:6b-13 we read of Jesus sending out the Twelve…
Christian Scriptures… Musings on Mark: The Sea of Galilee 19 Sep 2018September 13, 2018 This week's "Musings on Mark" is not so much my musings but those of Paul Davidson over at his website Is That in the Bible? A couple of years ago he posted…
Characters in Mark… Musings on Mark: Another Reason to Doubt Peter Was Behind Mark’s Gospel 12 Sep 2018September 12, 2018 In addition to my regular Bible reading schedule and my verse-by-verse translating of the Gospel of Mark, I've also been reading a Markan pericope a day each weekday. Today I…
Jesus… Musings on Mark: Jesus’ Return to Nazareth 5 Sep 2018August 27, 2018 I recently finished working through the Greek text of Mark 6:1-6a, a passage that highlights Jesus' rejection by those closest to him. The pericope follows a "sandwich story" wherein Jesus…
Biblical Languages… Musings on Mark: ‘Ekballo’ 1 Aug 2018August 1, 2018 Sixteen times in the Gospel of Mark we read the Greek word ekballo, a verb that is a compound of the preposition ek and the verb ballo. Before we look at ekballo we should…
Discipleship in Mark… Musings on Mark: “Who Then Is This?” 25 Jul 2018July 25, 2018 And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" (Mark 4:41, NRSV) One of…
