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Hello Stefan: This is just a thought concerning your exegesis of Mk 4. I think a problem that I see in your analysis where you say: "Note that all four kinds of soil "hear" the Word. This means being a Christian." What I would offer is that the parable of the soil implies the exa...

Hello Stefan: Mark 4 is indeed complex, and you are right to observe that as soon as you solve one problem in the text another appears. Here are my thoughts on chapter 4 (for what they are worth): Mark is a deeply self-referential Gospel; and the stories in it are interwoven in order to interpret on...

Can someone explain to me what the reader is supposed to do with their understanding in Mark 13:14-17? If it refers to the first Jewish war, then isn't it too late to be issuing warnings to flee? It sounds like the author knows what happened. The nod & wink to the reader doesn't seem to make se...

I think the guy at the end of the link should run for office. Using his math we might be able to make the national debt disappear.

Moses I think it would be helpful to put this line into its context Mk 1:7-8 [7] And he proclaimed, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. [8] I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy S...

Hello Moses! I would offer this: What John is understanding as "power" in this verse isn't power in the "worldly" sense of being able to impose your will on another, but as the power that comes from being more directly connected to God. So for John, the one who is more powerful i...