BIBL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Centrality, Messianic Secret, Pharisees
Document Summary
Major points summary: no birth story, starts at his adult life. John the baptist tells that a man more powerful than he is coming. Jesus is baptized, god recognizes him as his son. Jesus travels to galilee and gets simon and andrew-fishermen who leave their dad: gets james and john, heals paralytic, man with weird hand, simon"s mother in law, pharisees and followers of herod plot to kill him. Jesus becomes increasingly misunderstood by followers and disciples. Jesus appears as an extraordinary and divine being. Knows the future and inner thoughts of other people. Most scholars think that mark was the first gospel written (a. d. Mark was peter"s interpreter- (likely written 10-20 years after paul"s letters) ~ author relied on oral tradition, stories that the church collected and retold about jesus, and possibly some early written sources. Ends with the fleeing of the women from the tomb and then it ends.
