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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...

of the tearing apart of the temple curtain at the moment of Jesus’ death (15:38)—another uninterpreted comment about some mysterious event that teases the imagination. Christian interpreters—like the author of the letter to the Hebrews—used the image of the temple curtain to speak about the significance of Jesus’ death. The curtain separates the Holy of Holies from view; God’s presence is threatening. With his death, Jesus has entered the Holy of Holies once for all, and the curtain is no longer
Pages 34–35
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