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In this volume, respected New Testament scholar Robert Stein offers a substantive yet highly accessible commentary on the Gospel of Mark. The commentary focuses primarily on the Markan understanding of the Jesus traditions as reflected in this key New Testament book. The author analyzes each section in Mark to show how it fits the immediate and larger context of the Gospel. He offers...

It is clear that Mark does not want his readers to think that what Jesus does in 11:14 is due to anger or rage. There is no hint of this in the verse. On the contrary, just as his “looking around” in 11:11 indicates that the cleansing of the temple was a carefully thought-out and planned prophetic act, so his coming to the fig tree and finding no leaves indicates that the cursing miracle is also a thought-out symbolic act, a dramatized prophecy (J. Edwards 1989: 208). The fig tree represents Israel
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