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In this commentary, Broadhead explores the Gospel of Mark for literary designs which might guide modern readers. He gives special attention to structure, strategy, significance and the appropriation of meaning, and his analysis shows the Gospel as a sequential account which employs a strategy of reciprocity among its episodes. Clear signs are created within this Gospel, the meaning of which is...

(9:6). Jesus then points to his own suffering and death, using the images of a cup and a baptism, and he asks if the disciples are able to share this along with his glory. Their brash answer—‘We are able’—recalls their impotence over the demon in 9:28—‘Why were we not able to cast it out?’ Jesus leaves the question of who will sit at his left and right unanswered, but he does offer a prophecy about the future of the disciples: they will suffer with him. The failure of John and James spreads to the
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