In the light of the
point made above, by reading again Dykstra's interpretation of the Messianic Secret in Mark, I infer that it is pure Judaization in action:
The Messianic Secret
In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus goes around preaching to everyone who will listen, in some cases to thousands at a time, and yet paradoxically, almost every time he heals someone he warns them not to make his identity known to anyone. He gives his disciples the same command immediately after the Transfiguration (9:9). Many explanations for this have been advanced, all of which are problematic in one way or another. It is the context of Paul's struggle to keep focus on the cross and crucifixion that best makes sense of the commands to secrecy. All of these commands are issued before Christ's passion. Mark's point is that the weakness of the crucifixion is what seals Christ's identity for all of his followers, not the power revealed in miracles and healings. Christ himself does not claim to be the messiah who will come in glory in the future, until he is in the midst of suffering his passion. Or, to put it another way, the message of Christ must be kept secret until it can be properly understood, until the true basis of his Messiahship is revealed.
(extract from
Mark Canonizer of Paul, my bold)
I have learned the Mark's lesson:
what has to persuade you that Jesus is the
Jewish Christ is not, or not only, his miracles
x, y, z, his
earthly life, his davidic nature, his mortal nature, his fulfilling of OT prophecies, but only and especially: his crucifixion.
What better evidence than this, for the claim that the crucifixion was considered as the not-Jewish thing
par-excellence ?
Bart Ehrman would answer that this proves that Jesus
existed.
I would answer that this proves that Jesus Son of Unknown Father (
"Bar-Abbas"), the
original victim of the celestial crucifixion in outer space,
never existed.