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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...

the bread to his companions as well (cf. 1 Sam. 21:1–6; according to the Hebrew text, it was Ahimelek, the father of Abiathar, who gave David the consecrated bread. There is some confusion in that 1 Sam. 22:20 calls Abiathar the son of Ahimelek, and 2 Sam. 8:17 and 1 Chr. 18:16; 24:6 make Ahimelek the son of Abiathar; when Mark 2:26 is translated ‘when Abiathar was high priest’ [NRSV], the problem persists, unless one assumes that Mark followed a different textual tradition that surfaces e.g. in
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