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The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark’s Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

“They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha.… And they crucified him.… Some women were watching from a distance” (Mark 15:22, 24, 40). At the climax of Mark’s Gospel, Jesus of Nazareth is put to death on a Roman cross. The text tells us, in that lonely hour, that a group of women were watching the crucifixion “from a distance.” In a sense, they are given a stance toward the cross that we can...

exactly when the bridegroom is taken away that religion is abolished and the need for faith is established. After the coming of Jesus provokes conflict with religion in the first narrative movement, Mark’s second main movement (4:35–8:26) will show Jesus acting to establish faith. We shall gain an overview of Mark’s second main section by examining its first scene—the ‘storm at sea’ (4:35–41). This scene functions to structure the reading of the entire section
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