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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...

passage, the two pericopes are similarly structured: in each case Jesus is, for the most part, the passive object of others’ actions but breaks through that passivity to make a striking pronouncement about two-thirds of the way through (14:48–49, 62). In the present instance, the pronouncement is the climax of the passage and one of the most Christologically freighted statements in the Gospel.
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