Gospel of Mark Readthrough : 1:9-15
Jan. 12th, 2012 01:03 pm10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.
OK, we make really, really sure the reader gets the point here. I suspect this "heaven being torn open" may have been more obvious in retrospect than it was at the time.
12 At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, 13and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.
Hm. I think the wilderness thing is in more detail in some of the other gospels? Here's it's just one line. It looks like Mark knew a longer story about it, but just put in the bare bones for whatever reason (IIRC a lot of the Mishnah in the Talmud is like that, it's not expected to be read by someone COMPLETELY unfamiliar with it, but to provide an outline). There obviously was a really important story about it, or Mark wouldn't have mentioned it, but it's not really clear what happened or why it's important yet.
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OK, we make really, really sure the reader gets the point here. I suspect this "heaven being torn open" may have been more obvious in retrospect than it was at the time.
12 At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, 13and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.
Hm. I think the wilderness thing is in more detail in some of the other gospels? Here's it's just one line. It looks like Mark knew a longer story about it, but just put in the bare bones for whatever reason (IIRC a lot of the Mishnah in the Talmud is like that, it's not expected to be read by someone COMPLETELY unfamiliar with it, but to provide an outline). There obviously was a really important story about it, or Mark wouldn't have mentioned it, but it's not really clear what happened or why it's important yet.
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