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In The Gospel of Mark, Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading of Mark’s Gospel helps us to appreciate the literary character, its setting in life, and its distinctive approaches to the Old Testament, Jesus, and early Christian theology. ...

a blind beggar, was sitting by the road: For an earlier healing of a blind man see Mark 8:22–26. The word for “beggar” (prosaitēs) is found only in John 9:8 elsewhere in the NT, though beggars were probably a common phenomenon in ancient Palestine. While here hodos (“road, way”) is simply a geographical indication, in 10:52 the same word functions theologically as a reference to the “way” of discipleship. 47. Jesus of Nazareth … Son of David: The adjective Nazarēnos appears also in Mark 1:24; 14:67;
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