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Mark wrote his Gospel to explain why and how Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God who fulfills God’s promises as he proclaims and embodies the coming kingdom of God. Mark emphasizes Jesus’ authority and also his suffering and death as God’s will for his messianic mission. Eckhard Schnabel’s commentary seeks to help today’s Christian disciples communicate the significance of Jesus and the...

Bethany, they would be facing the Mount of Olives, not the Temple Mount (Isa. 2:2/Mic. 4:1; Zech. 4:7 do not speak of the removal of Mount Zion into the sea, which means that if indeed the Temple Mount were in view, these eschatological passages are not relevant here either). Jesus does not comment on the fate of a particular mountain in the future. He asserts that what is humanly impossible becomes possible for those who believe in the power of God. Jesus states the condition for achieving the impossible
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