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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...

began to rebuke him. Gk ērxato epitiman autō̧. For other misguided rebukes in Mark, see 10:13, where the disciples rebuke those bringing little children to Jesus, and 10:48, where the crowd rebukes blind Bartimaeus (cf. Robbins, “Bartimaeus,” 49). 33. turning and looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter. Gk epistrapheis kai idōn tous mathētas autou epetimēsen Petrō̧. This awkward stage direction is probably meant to suggest that the misunderstanding of the divine purpose voiced by Peter is one that
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