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The Gospel of Mark is written from God’s perspective. The narrator knows how Scripture relates to events, what Jesus is thinking, what the disciples do or do not understand, and what the religious leaders suspect. He hears the voice from heaven addressed to Jesus alone; he knows about the conversation at Jesus’ trial where none of the disciples is present. The narrator, in other words, knows more...

destruction of the temple in A.D. 70. Wars will come, says Jesus; “it is necessary” (RSV, this must take place). The necessity is viewed here as due to the decision of God—the same necessity that stands over Jesus’ career. Not accidentally, scriptural language—from Daniel and Isaiah—is used to speak of these wars to come, since it is in the Scriptures that God’s will is disclosed. The necessity that governs the future is reason to take heart if God is to be trusted—which is the point of Jesus’ instructions
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