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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...

interpretation was spoken of as “a remover of mountains.”35 The statement of Jesus is a picture of that which is utterly impossible with men, yet can be accomplished through faith in the power of God. “Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea”—the command of faith in the face of an impossible situation. Be removed (more literally, “be taken up”) and cast are aorist imperative, commanding acts that must take place at once. The passive voice implies that God is the agent behind the actions. “The
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