11.     (Power of One - deals with) Crowd fickleness

 

13:1-2

Crowd
favours

14:42-43

Crowd
condemns

 

13:1 And going forth him out of the temple says to him one of the disciples of him: Teacher, behold what great stones and what great buildings. 2 And Jesus said to him; Seest thou these great buildings? by no means as be left stone on stone which by no means be overthrown.

41:42 Rise ye, let us go; behold the one betraying me has drawn near. 43 And immediately yet him speaking arrives Judas one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

Note is there a link here between stones falling and the finish of chief priests?

12      (Power of One - deals with) Finding support

13:3-37

Disciples ask
(Peter, James, John)

14:12-41

Disciples grieve
(Peter, James, John)

 

13:3. And sitting him in(on) the mount of the olives opposite the temple, questioned him privately Peter and James and John and Andrew: 4 Tell us, when these things will be, and what the sign when are about these things to be completed all? 5 And Jesus began to say to them: See lest anyone you lead astray. 6 Many will come on (in) the name of me saying - I am, and many they will lead astray. 7 But when ye hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not disturbed; it behoves to happen but not yet the end. 8 will be raised. For nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in places there will be famines; beginning of birth-pangs these things (are). 9 Buy see ye yourselves; they will deliver you to councils and in synagogues ye will be beaten and before rulers and kings ye will stand for the sake of me, for a testimony to them. 10 And to all the nations first it behoves to be proclaimed the gospel. 11 And when they lead you delivering, be not anxious beforehand what ye speak, but whatever is given you in that hour, this speak ye; for not are ye the ones speaking but the Sprit Holy. 12 And will (continued over page)

14:12 And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover they sacrificed, say to him the disciples of him; Where wishest thou, going we may prepare that thou eatest the Passover? 13 And he sends two of the disciples of him and tells them: Go ye into the city, and will meet you a man a pitcher of water carrying; follow him. 14 and wherever he enters tell the housemaster. The teacher says: Where is the guest room of me, where the Passover with the disciples of me I may eat? 15 And he you will show upper room a large having been spread ready; and there prepare ye for us. 16 and went forth the disciples and came into the city and found as he told them, and they prepared the Passover. 17 And evening coming he comes with the twelve. 18 And reclining them and eating Jesus said; Truly I tell you that one of you will betray me the one eating with me. 19 They began to grieve (continued over page)

 

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deliver a brother a brother to death and a father a child, and will rise against children against parents and will put to death them; 13:13 and ye will be being hated by all men on account of the name of me; but the one enduring to the end, this will be saved. 14 But when ye see the abomination of desolation stand where he behooves not, the one reading let him understand then the ones in Judea let them flee to the mountains,:15 the one on the roof let him not come down nor let him enter anything to take out of the house of him, 16 and the one in the field let him not return to the things behind to take the garment of him. 17 woe But to the women pregnant and to the ones giving suck in those days. 18 But pray ye that it may not happen in winter; 19 for will be days those afflictions of such has not happened as from the beginning of the creation which created God until now and by no means may be. 20 And unless shortened the Lord the days no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen whom he chose he shortened the days 21 And then if anyone you tells Behold here is the Christ, behold there, believe ye not; 22 will be raised and false Christs and false prophets and they will do signs and wonders for to lead astray, if possible, the chosen. 23 But ye see; I have told before you all things 24 But in those days after the affliction that the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give the light of her. 25 and the stars will be out of heaven falling and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26 And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with power much and glory. 27 And then he will send the angels and they will assemble the chosen of him out of the four winds from the extremity of earth to the extremity of heaven. 28 Now from the fig-tree learn the parable; when now the branch of it tender becomes and puts forth the leaves, ye know that near the summer is. 29 so also ye, when ye see these things happening, know that near he is at the doors. 30 Truly I tell you that by no means asses generation this until these things all happen. 31 The heaven and the earth will pass away, but the words of me will not pass away. 32 But concerning the day that or hour no one knows, not the angels in heaven neither the Son except the Father. 33 Look be wakeful for you know not when the time is. 34 As a man away from home leaving the house of him and giving to the slaves of him authority, to each the work of him, and the doorkeeper he commanded that he should watch. 35 Watch ye therefore; for ye know not when the lord of the house comes either late or at midnight or at cock-crowing or early; 36 lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what to you I say, to all I say, watch ye.

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and to say to him one by one; Not I? 14:20 And he said to them: One of the twelve the one dipping with me in the one dish. 21 Because indeed the Son of man is going as it has been written concerning him: but woe man to that through whom the Son of man is betrayed; good for him if not was born of man that. 22 And eating them taking a loaf blessing he broke and gave to them and said: Take ye; this is the body of me. 23 And taking a cup giving thanks he gave to them, and drank of it all. 24 And he said to them: This is the blood of me of the covenant being shed for many. 25 Truly I tell you. No more by no means will I drink of the fruit of the vine until the day that when it I drink new in the kingdom of God. 26 And having sung a hymn they went forth to the mount of the olives. 27 And says to them the Jesus. All ye will be offended because it has been written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. 28 But after thee to be raised me I will go before you to Galilee. 29 And Peter said to him, If even all men shall be offended yet not I. 30 And says to him Jesus Truly I tell thee. Thou today in this night before twice a clock to sound trice me thou wilt deny. 31 but he more exceedingly said: If it should behoove me to die with thee by no means thee will I deny. and similarly also all said. 32 And they come to a piece of land of which the name was Gethsemane, and he says to the disciples of him: Sit ye here while I pray. 33 And he takes Peter and James and John with him, and began to be greatly astonished and to be distressed. 34 And says to them: Deeply grieved is the soul of me unto death; remain ye here and watch. 35 And going forward a little he fell on the ground and prayed that if possible it is might pass away from him the hour, 36 And said: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee; remove the cup this from me; but not what I wish but what thou. 37 And he comes and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter: Simon, sleepest though? couldst thou not one hour to watch.? 38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye come into temptation; indeed the spirit is eager, but the flesh weak. 39 And again going away he prayed the same word saying. 40 And again coming he found them sleeping. for were of them the eyes becoming heavy, and not they knew what they might answer him. 41 And he comes the third time and says to them. Sleep ye now, and rest; it is enough; came the hour, behold is betrayed the Son of man into the hands of sinners.

 

13.     (Power of One - deals with) Plots and criticism

14:1-2

Priests
plotting

14:10-11

Some
angry about woman

14:1 Now it was the Passover and the feast of the unleavened bread after two days. And sought the chief priests and the scribes how him by guile seizing they might kill. 2 For they said Not at the feast, lest there will be a disturbance of the people.

14:10 And Judas Iscariot, the one of the twelve, went to the chief priests that him he might betray to them. 11 And they hearing rejoiced and promised him silver to give. And he sought how him opportunely he might betray.

 

14.     (Power of One - deals with) Taking initiative

14:3-9

Woman
anoints with jar - to be remembered

14:3 And being him in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, reclining him came a woman having an alabaster phial of ointment nard of pure costly; breaking the alabaster phial she poured over of him the head. 4 Now there some being angry with themselves: Why waste this of the ointment has occurred? 5 for could this ointment to be sold (for) over denaii three hundred and to be given to the poor: and they were indignant with her. 6 But Jesus said: Leave her; why to her troubles cause ye? a good work she wrought in me. 7 For always the poor ye have with yourselves, and whenever ye wish ye can to them well to do, but me not always ye have, 8 What she had she did; she was beforehand to anoint the body of me for the burial. 9 Truly And I tell you, wherever is proclaimed the gospel in all the world, also what did this woman will be spoken for a memorial of her.

 

Note: This woman is connected to a 'fallen woman' elsewhere but here she contrasts with Mary Magdalen who leaves the tomb in fear c/f point one. While there are very few references to sex in the gospels is there an implication here that the key type of person for the Christian is one who can reform or 'rise again'? A reference to the woman appears to come up again in the Gospel of John when the disciples are told to wash one another's feet in order to identify with the Living Word. Some scholars argue that in John the woman caught in adultery is a story that has been later added to the gospel. People may have been wondering more about the identity of the woman here in Mark and John may have been suggesting this was the woman who was 'forgiven' by Jesus. It is interesting to note that an apparently parallel gospel passage to the story of the woman caught in adultery deals with the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem when he comes to free "daughter of Sion". Perhaps there is a veiled reference here to his freeing of the "daughter of Sion" from the legal bondage imposed by over-stress on external law. Also the new Christian community for whom John is writing could be challenged to see themselves as a living off-shoot from Judaism (a daughter)