The more marcionite thing of the entire New Testament

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Giuseppe
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The more marcionite thing of the entire New Testament

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Surely it's to consider the original Mark 8:27-33 as the following:
Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
Peter answered, “The people say that you are the Christ.”
Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
That is why Jesus was seen as ''one who teaches with authority and not as the scribes'', since the scribes (allegory of the Jewish Christians) would have liked one as John the Baptist, or Elijiah, or ''one of the prophets''.

That is why Jesus is welcomed very well by the people in his entry into Jerusalem.
 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches in the field and spread them on the road. 9 The people who were in front and those who followed behind began to shout, “Praise God! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! 10 God bless the coming kingdom of King David, our father! Praise be to God!”
(Mark 11:8-10)

So Mark 14:62
“I am,” answered Jesus, “and you will all see the Son of Man seated at the right side of the Almighty and coming with the clouds of heaven!”
...was deliberately a proclamation of victory, so that the scribes and pharisees (allegory of the Jewish Christians) are frustrated. The Jewish Christians preached a suffering Christ as expiatory sacrifice. But if the Christ is a victorious Christ in 14:62, how can he sacrifice himself for the people?


The sin of Jesus before the sinedrites is a betrayal of the his presumed role: he is a Christ who doesn't act even as a suffering Christ and therefore, as punition, he has to suffer and die.

The sinedrites are allegory of the Jewish Christians insofar both they believe that the Jewish Christ has to suffer and die.

Therefore Pilate mocks the same 'scribes' (Jewish Christians) when he says:
“What, then, do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews?”

The irony of Pilate is addressed against the same Jewish Christians:
they would like to kill their Christ just because he is ''the Christ''. A criticism of the Jewish Christian espiatory sacrifice of the Christ is implicit.

So Jesus is NOT the Christ in both the two senses:

1) he is not the victorious Christ of the mainstream judaism.

2) he is not the suffering expiatory Christ of the Jewish Christians.

This gives us the real meaning of the Earliest Gospel: Marcion of Sinope wrote it.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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