Aleph One wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:29 am
Can anyone tell me who Jesus is angry with in this passage (supposedly) from the Secret Gospel of Mark, as it appears in Scott Brown's
Mark's Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith's Controversial Discovery:
I can recall some past talk here about Gospel manuscript variants which disagree on whether Jesus was, or wasn't, angry with someone while performing a miracle. (Was it John 11:33 maybe?) This seems similar but the source being apocryphal is making it hard for me to find anything about it.
Is Jesus angry with the woman for some reason? With his disciples for being dismissive of her? Or could it be a translation issue, and (e.g.) it means "his emotions were raised" maybe? (That's how I see some trying to explain it in John 11:33.) And, sorry my fonts suck apparently, so I had to use a screenshot to get the untranslated version in, but maybe that will help?
Thanks a lot to anyone who gets a chance to look at this!
In John 11:33, I take it that Jesus is angry because the women, having sent for him, and the Jews are weeping when he meets them, not focusing on his power to raise Lazarus.("33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.") Jesus I think usually in the NT gets angry over things like faithlessness, impiety, and sin.
In Secret Mark, however, Jesus, like the disciples, just seems angry as soon as a woman comes up to ask him for help. This reminds me of how the disciples wanted to keep children away from Jesus (implicitly because children were seen as inferior in society) and he rebuked them that the children should be allowed to come to him and that one must be like a child to enter heaven. In Secret Mark however, Jesus is joining the disciples in rebuking a woman who comes to him for help, suggesting that Jesus is rejecting women from his circle. In the NT, Jesus wasn't angry that women or children wanted to come to him or get his help. This incongruity between Secret Mark and the known gospels is another piece of evidence against Secret Mark's authenticity for me.
It's not clear at first in the first passage of Secret Mark what Jesus is mad about - the woman's request or the disciples' rebuke. But in the second passage of Secret Mark (after Mark 10:46), the same women want to meet with Jesus and Jesus rejects them, with no further explanation. So the sense in the second passage, and consequently in the first passage, is that Jesus is angry over women wanting to join or get help from him.