Mark 1:1–8:26 (Biblia.com)

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For many people today the Gospel of Mark is the most basic Gospel: the shortest, the simplest, the least literary, and the earliest. This has certainly been the view of the majority of New Testament scholars since the middle of the nineteenth century (especially following the work of H.J. Holtzmann), and it endures even to today. The move to such an evaluation began already in the early part of...

• Peter confesses Jesus to be the Christ (8:29), in response to the question of who people say Jesus is (8:27). • In reaction, Jesus enjoins silence (8:30) and utters the first passion prediction (8:31). • In rejoinder, Peter begins to rebuke Jesus (8:32). • Whereupon Jesus rebukes Peter and says, “Go behind me, Satan, because you are not thinking the things of God but the things of men” (8:33). As argued in the introduction,28 the Jesus revealed in the first seven chapters of Mark’s Gospel is not

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