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“The Gospel of Mark is not a biography of Jesus,” writes D. Edmond Hiebert, “but rather a delineation of the ‘good news’ of salvation made available through the suffering Servant of Jehovah. The picture presented is in harmony with the declared purpose of Jesus that ‘the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.’ ” Following a...

was meant. Among those advocated are (1) the transfiguration; (2) the resurrection and ascension; (3) Pentecost; (4) the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70; (5) the manifestation of the kingdom in the church. In my judgment, the most probable view is that the primary reference was to the transfiguration serving as a visible type of the eschatological coming of the kingdom. This interpretation was accepted by most of the church Fathers. In supporting this view, Cranfield points out that it agrees
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