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the scribes of the Pharisees,
I Samuel 21 - Abiathar's father, Ahimalech
6And going out the Pharisees immediately exchanged counsel with the Herodians against him, that they might destroy him.
“To you the mystery of the Kingdom of God has been granted; but to those outside everything comes in parables,
12So that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they should turn and it should be forgiven them.”
spores
he did not speak to them without a parable, but in private he explained everything to his disciples.
the region of the Gerasenes.
The second of four exorcisms (see also 1.21–28; 7.24–30; 9.14–29).
Decapolis
Jairus
lit. saved?
they proclaimed that persons should change their hearts, 13And exorcized many demons, and anointed with oil many who were ill, and healed them.
Bethsaida,
within themselves they were quite overwhelmingly astonished, 52For they did not understand about the loaves, while their heart was obdurate.
Gennesaret
Bethsaida.
villages of Caesarea Philippi;
“Whom do people say me to be?”
The first set in a cycle of three predictions of Jesus’ suffering and resurrection (8.31; see also 9.31; 10.33–34), three inappropriate responses by the disciples (8.32–33; see also 9.32–34; 10.35–41), and three discourses on discipleship (8.34–9.1; see also 9.35–50; 10.42–45).
34And summoning the crowd along with his disciples he said to them,
38For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him too will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
A private acknowledgement, same as at tne baptism
23And Jesus said to him, “As to ‘if you are able’—all things are possible for the one who has faith.” 24Immediately crying out, the child’s father said, “I have faith; help my faithlessness!”
Capernaum.
49For everyone will be salted with fire.
life of the Age?”
the life of that Age.
44And whoever among you wishes to be first will be the slave of all; 45For even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his soul as the price of liberation for many.”
Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives,
the Pharisees and the Herodians
Sadducees,
Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him in private,
when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not
26And then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory; 27And then he will send forth the angels and they will gather together the chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.
30Amen, I tell you that this generation most certainly does not pass away until all these things happen.
Simon the leper,
55And the chief priests and the entire Council sought out evidence against Jesus,
“You are the Anointed, the Son of the Blessed One?” 62And Jesus said, “I am; and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of the sky.”
“You say it.
38And the veil of the sanctuary was rent in two, from top to bottom. 39And the centurion who was standing by opposite him, seeing that he had thus expired, said, “Truly this man was a god’s son.”
by the first century it had long served as the name of a mysterious apocalyptic or eschatological figure
(though not one whose precise significance can be ascertained).
Heb. ben adam. The Son of Man in Mark sometimes clearly alludes to Dan 7.13–14 (8.38; 13.26; 14.62), but here it is ambiguous, as in v. 28. The scribes, as characters in the narrative, find the phrase confusing, but the audience would understand it as a title for Jesus based on a particular interpretation of Dan 7.13–14. Whatever its precise meaning, it focuses here on Jesus’ earthly authority (see also v. 28; Mt 8.20; 11.19; 12.32; Lk 6.22; 7.34; 9.58; 12.10). (HarperCollins)
“The Satan,” which is to say, “prosecutor,” “accuser,” “arraigner.”
The final twelve verses of the Gospel are set apart here because they are a somewhat later addition, absent from the text known to the earliest Church Fathers.
Behold!
And ... And ... And ...
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recognize the reliability of the accounts you have been taught.
you shall declare his name to be John;
good tidings
the whole hill country of Judaea,
