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The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ben Witherington III applies to Mark the socio-rhetorical approach for which he is well known, opening a fresh new perspective on the earliest Gospel. Mark was written when the early Christians were experiencing a major crisis during the Jewish war. He provides us with the first window on how the life and teachings of Jesus were presented to a largely non-Jewish audience. According to...

Here in v. 29 it is made quite clear that Peter is married (cf. 1 Cor. 9:5), and so we see some of the cost of discipleship for him here as well. This healing, like the exorcism, takes place on the Sabbath, and it is important to understand the theology of the Sabbath in Jesus’ day. The Sabbath had become a symbol of the eschatological rest or shalom that God would one day provide for his people when, as the Pharisees thought, Messiah came and brought in the age to come. The longed-for Sabbath was
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