The Ending of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)
There is, in other words, a clear line all the way from Genesis 11, via Isaiah 40–55 and Daniel 7, to Mark 10, and thereby in turn to Mark 14–15, where Jesus meets his captors, his judges, and his death. He not only theorizes about the difference between pagan power and the kind of power he is claiming; he enacts it.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
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What about “The Woman Caught in Adultery”?
Looking back at John 7:53-8:11, it is clear this story was not in John’s original gospel. Your Bible likely has brackets around this story with a note that says something like “The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53-8:11.” This is because the only manuscript before the ninth century to include this s... See more
Looking back at John 7:53-8:11, it is clear this story was not in John’s original gospel. Your Bible likely has brackets around this story with a note that says something like “The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53-8:11.” This is because the only manuscript before the ninth century to include this s... See more
Adultery | Why We Are Not Preaching on the Woman Caught in Adultery
From all of this it should be clear that Jesus regarded his ministry as in continuity with, and bringing to a climax, the work of the great prophets of the Old Testament, culminating in John the Baptist, whose initiative he had used as his launching-pad.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
If one had asked Jesus, after the parable in Mark 7, why he spoke so cryptically, he might well have replied with the famous and (otherwise) puzzling words from Mark 4:11–12: so that they may look and look but never see, and hear and hear but never understand.132 If they were really to see or understand there might be a riot. Those who have ears wi
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