Did the Passion Story precede the Ministry Story in Mark?

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Giuseppe
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Did the Passion Story precede the Ministry Story in Mark?

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Assume for a moment that the Passion Story preceded the Ministry Story in Mark. Jesus was killed before the his preaching. So the Ministry Story is only a long Resurrection story. So the man Jesus was only the (human or apparent) channel for the good news from the already risen Christ. In this sense the Son of Man is already descended on the earth and his enemies have seen him (fulfilling Mk 14:62). So the Christ can abandon Jesus on the cross since the spiritual Christ was already crucified before the same preaching of the man Jesus possessed by the spiritual Christ.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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