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The demoniac episode is about impurity and the cleansing of the land of impurity. In Exodus 23:28 Hashem drives away the nations out of the land and here Jesus drives away ritual impurity out of the land The unclean spirits recognize the authority of Jesus and try to negotiate a compromise that woul...

Mark is telling what he heard from the companions or their friends. The sleeping companions would have told many times of their embarrassment when the boss found them sleeping on the job: they were lost for words. It is very easy to fill in the blanks. And also they had had a wee drink , according ...

Thanks, Andrew, will phone my local Waterstones to see if they have it in store. I'll wait until it gets to Poundland. Haha, Steven. Don't like the idea of paying top price either - but the book could do with some 'negative' amazon reviews...... Local Waterstones don't have the book in stock and an...

Mark 14 37 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Couldn’t you keep watch for one hour? 38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 39 Once more he went away and prayed th...

Christian scholars who hold "infallibility" of scripture but who may shy away from calling scripture "inerrant" tend to say that the evangelists report what they learned from witnesses but may organize, even embellish their material to serve rhetorical strategies. So the result ...

Casey's naive literalism just ruins Mark's story about how the disciples were sleeping while Jesus , the hero, was wrestling with his forthcoming ordeal. In Mark,Jesus withdraws and prays returns and finds the disciples sleeping , 3 times (just as Peter denies Jesus 3 times). Just how much of a tin...

"Casey argues (IMO plausibly) that Jesus in Mark prays aloud at a little distance from the disciples who hear the beginning of Jesus' prayer before going to sleep. " why would someone who wanted to be heard seperate himself from his disciples? he is seperating himself from his deciples be...

Jesus would have prayed in the style of his culture and with the passion of the departing. Part of his prayer would have been easily heard by his tired companions before falling sleep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfF6-TkAnBM Shema JW : You've stumbled onto a wonderful irony here that I'll explai...

Jesus would have prayed in the style of his culture and with the passion of the departing. Part of his prayer would have been easily heard by his tired companions before falling sleep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfF6-TkAnBM Shema JW : You've stumbled onto a wonderful irony here that I'll explai...

Paul's Nine Letters to the Churches

Indeed. Paul would not waste time and effort repeating what was already well know to believers and risk irritating them in the process.

Paul said enough in his epistles to give life to 2000 years of history and a widely preached Gospels.