Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I The first group of conflict-stories
- II The Twelve-source
- III Jesus and the devils
- IV The book of parables
- V Books of miracles
- VI Nazareth and John the Baptist
- VII Corban and miscellaneous incidents
- VIII A book of localized miracles
- IX The ‘Central Section’
- X The entry to Jerusalem
- XI A second group of conflict-stories?
- XII The warning against the scribes
- XIII The ‘Little Apocalypse’
- XIV The Passion story
- XV The Resurrection story
- SUMMARY
- INDEXES
III - Jesus and the devils
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I The first group of conflict-stories
- II The Twelve-source
- III Jesus and the devils
- IV The book of parables
- V Books of miracles
- VI Nazareth and John the Baptist
- VII Corban and miscellaneous incidents
- VIII A book of localized miracles
- IX The ‘Central Section’
- X The entry to Jerusalem
- XI A second group of conflict-stories?
- XII The warning against the scribes
- XIII The ‘Little Apocalypse’
- XIV The Passion story
- XV The Resurrection story
- SUMMARY
- INDEXES
Summary
As a possible, but doubtful, collection of the type we are considering, we may note the sections Mark i. 21—39 and iii. 20—30. In the first passage we have a typical miracle story, rather awkwardly appended to a general summary describing Jesus' habitual preaching in the synagogue at Capernaum, which might, or might not, be drawn from the Twelve-source (cf. above, p. 29). The story ends with a conventional acclamation. The story of Peter's mother-in-law may well have been inserted by Mark from some other source of information; the three verses which follow are remarkable for the emphasis which they lay on the casting out of devils and Jesus' attitude towards them, and the theme is resumed at the end of 39. This could lead on quite well to iii. 20 (for πάλιν on this view, cf. p. 19); iii. 28 ff. will have been included here by Mark, verse 30 being added rather clumsily to justify the insertion. The saying stands in a different context in Luke (xii. 10); it may well have come to Mark as an isolated fragment. Apart from these two passages we should have a document with a quite consistent theme, the activity of Jesus as the conqueror of the devils; it might have been introduced by the brief Marcan story of the Temptation (i. 12 ff.).
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- The Sources of the Synoptic Gospels , pp. 32 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011