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Mark 8–16: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the final nine chapters of the Gospel of Mark, Jesus increasingly struggles with his disciples’ incomprehension of his unique concept of suffering messiahship and with the opposition of the religious leaders of his day. The Gospel recounts the events that led to Jesus’ arrest, trial, and crucifixion by the Roman authorities, concluding with an enigmatic ending in which Jesus’ resurrection is...

“Give … yourselves” in 6:37. Explicit evidence for an OT and Jewish expectation that the Messiah would destroy the Temple is hard to find (see Juel, Messiah, 197, and Chester, “Sibyl,” 55). If the Temple was to be destroyed, this destruction was usually expected to be the work of God (see, e.g., 2 Chron 36:17–21; Jeremiah 26; Ezek 9:7–8; 10:18–19; 11:22–23; 1 En. 90.28). Similarly, in Jesus’ own forecast of Temple destruction (Mark 13:2), the crucial verb “be thrown down” (katalythȩ̄) is a divine
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