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Mark 1:9-15
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Reading the Text:
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Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
| The
Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto. |
| Stephen Carlson's color-coded Greek Synoptic Parallels: 1:9-11, 1:12-13, 1:14-15. |
| Comparative texts about Spirit
Possession and Exorcism from Philo, Lucian, Josephus, the Babylonian Talmud, Midrash,
Philostratus, etc. At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H.
Smith's Into His Own: Perspective
on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts. |
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"Kingdom and Repentance,"
"John Baptizes Jesus," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of
the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C.
Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation. |
| IV, 43-44; V, 43;
Tatian's Diatessaron
(c. 150-160). |
| VI.31, X.1,
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Philocalia [anthology of Origen prepared by St.
Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen], Origen.
(c.230) |
| III.24,
Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius of Caesarea (c 320). |
| Commentary on a Harmony of the
Evangelists, John Calvin, 1558:
Matthew 4:1-4, Mark 1:12-13, Luke 4:1-4,
Matthew 4:5-11/Mark 1:13/Luke 4:5-13,
Matthew 4:12, 17/Mark 1:14-15, Luke 3:19-20/Luke 4:14-15. |
| From the
Catena
Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas. |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "'Driveth' here does not refer
to something violent and forcible: but the divine power clothes
Christ (who had lived until this time as a private man) with a new
person, and prepares him for the battle that was at hand, and for
his ministry." |
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| From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
| "The serpent tempted the first
Adam in the garden, the Second Adam in the wilderness; with
different success indeed; and ever since he still tempts the
children of both, in all places and conditions." |
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| From Wesley's Notes.
| "So in all the children of
God, extraordinary manifestations of his favour are wont to be
followed by extraordinary temptations." |
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| The Repentance of
Believers (Mark 1:15), The Way of the Kingdom
(Mark 1:15). Sermons by John Wesley.
| "...supposing we do thus
repent, then are we called to "believe the gospel." And
this also is to be understood in a peculiar sense, different from
that wherein we believed in order to justification." |
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| "Faith
and Repentance Inseparable," Charles Spurgeon, Mark 1:15, 1862.
| "The repentance which is here
commanded is the result of faith; it is born at the same time with
faith—they are twins, and to say which is the elder-born passes my
knowledge." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871). |
| From The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891. |
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Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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A Brief Commentary on the
Gospel of Mark, Chapter 1, Carl W. Conrad. (Click superscript numbers
for commentary.) |
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"John
Baptizes Jesus,"
"Satan Tempts
Jesus in the Wilderness," Michael A. Turton's Historical Commentary
on the Gospel of Mark, "a complete
verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity
of people, places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark." |
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"The Temptation,"
Gospel Analysis, Sermons from
Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
| "Each person has points of
vulnerability to the power of evil." |
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"First
Thoughts on Year B Gospel Passages in the Lectionary: Lent 1,"
William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
| "There is a danger is seeing
any one of the three aspects of the passage in isolation. Being,
without engaging the issues is remote and might evoke adoration from
others but has little point. Struggling, without a sense of identity
in being and doing becomes floundering. Doing, without being and
struggling with the underlying issues becomes activism. And 1:16-20
adds: and don’t go it alone!" |
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John the Baptist,
Sarah M. Foulger,
Stirred by the Light
- Voices of Lent.
| "I have
learned that sometimes we do not recognize the voice of God speaking
because we are listening for something else." |
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Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western
Australia.
| "Assuming most of us were baptised as
hapless infants, have we grown into that baptism? Let it really happen
to us?" |
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"Breaking the
Boundaries," Preacher's Magazine, 2006: Listening to the Text,
Engaging the Text, Preaching the Text. |
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Exegesis,
Lent 1B,
by Richard Donovan at lectionary.org.
| "We might think of his baptism as a
commissioning and his temptation as a strengthening, toughening, hardening
experience." |
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| Exegetical
Notes
by Brian Stoffregen, at CrossMarks.
| "As I think about times when
my faith has been tested/strengthen, often the best service that
others can do for me, is to let me share the experience. Perhaps
that is why this event is followed with Jesus' first public
announcement. Maybe there is a connection between the Holy Spirit
leading into times of testing and the Holy Spirit speaking through
us. This text might lead to some autobiographical sermons." |
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Wellspring of
the Gospel, Lent 1B, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn
Turner, Weekly Wellsprings. |
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"Test Run," Fred Craddock, The Christian Century, 2003.
| "Temptation is not obvious, definitely not a
caricature..." |
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"The Temptation,"
Larry Broding's
Word-Sunday.Com: A
Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's
Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
| "Have you ever been in a deserted area
at night? What dangers did you feel in that 'desert?'" |
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"Forty
Days...or Whatever It Takes,"
Jerry Goebel, One
Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
| "God does not bless us for our
accomplishments—he blesses us for our choices." |
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| Mark
1:9-15, in Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary's An
Exegetical Study of the Common Lectionary, coordinated by Prof.
John E. Alsup, features rough translation, disposition, immediate
context, broader context, hermeneutical bridge, and contemporary
address.
| "We seem to travel through
wilderness after wilderness in these complex days. At least in this
country, among those whom I observe, they say their lives are in
shambles and they live and/or work (as if) in a jungle." |
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"Holiness: Baptism," commentary by David F. Wells, The Christian
Century, 2000. At Religion Online.
| "This is what baptism is: God places a
song in your heart. Your godparents’ role is to learn that song so well
that they can sing it back to you when you forget how it goes. And this is
the song: heaven is open to you; God’s spirit is in you; you are
everything to God. This is the song that makes your heart sing. And what
does the song Mean? I’ll tell you. You are the song in God’s heart, and
God will never forget that song." |
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"The
Most Uncomfortable Day of the Year,"
Byron L. Rohrig, The Christian Century, 1987. At Religion
Online.
| "Ash Wednesday is not known in
the church as our good humor day. So I was at first puzzled when I
reached into my file, untouched since the first day of Lent last
year, and found that I had scribbled the following: "On Ash
Wednesday, the minister who just had to be different slung a
shovelful of palm ash at his horrified congregation. One parishioner
was heard to remark in a whispered gasp, ‘This is a terrible
imposition."’" |
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"Theological Table Talk: Vocational Temptation," William H Willimon,
Theology Today, 1995.
| "How does the story of Jesus'
temptation end? Mark doesn't say, does he? He doesn't say if this
contest between Jesus and beasts ended in vocational triumph for Jesus
as Jesus shouted, 'Begone Satan!'
We don't know the end of the story." |
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"Jesus'
Baptism and Temptation," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed
textual notes. |
| "Snake
Handling and Wilderness Wandering," analysis and reflection by
Bob Bertram, Robin J Morgan and Ed Schroeder in Sabbatheology by The
Crossing Community of St Louis.
| "What's to repent of, turn
from, if we don't see the battle?" |
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| "Pulling
It Together," analysis and reflection by Lori Cornell, in Sabbatheology
by The Crossing Community of St Louis, Missouri.
| "We, who have been
trying to hold the world together on our own, now know: We can't;
instead, we have One who is holding the world together for us." |
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| "Jesus
Joins Us in Our Wilderness," analysis and reflection by Ed Schroeder, in Sabbatheology
by The Crossing Community of St Louis, Missouri.
| "It's not morality vs. hanky-panky that is at stake in temptation. It is
faith vs. unfaith." |
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| "The
Gospel of Mark from Beginning to End," James T. Dennison Jr. in
Kerux: The Online Journal of Biblical Theology (Reformed)
| "Mark
begins and ends his gospel with schism-a division, a parting, a
rending-the schism of the heavens (chapter 1: 10); the schism of the
veil in the temple (chapter 15:38)." |
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Articles & Background:
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"John the
Baptist,"
"Baptism of Jesus,"
"Temptation of
Jesus,"
"Mark 1:
John the Baptist,"
"Mark 1: Jesus' Baptism and Temptation," wikipedia. |
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"Jesus and
the Rule of God," Daniel P. Schrock, Windows to the World of Jesus:
Studies of Mark's Gospel. (Continue to click on "next" at bottom of
the page for Class 2 to work through the material.) |
| "The Heavenly Veil Torn:
Mark's Cosmic 'Inclusio'," by David Ulansey. [Originally published in Journal of
Biblical Literature 110:1 (Spring 1991) pp. 123-25]
| "Mark did indeed
imagine a link between the tearing of the heavens and the tearing of the
temple veil-- since we can now see that in fact in both cases the
heavens were torn-- and that he intentionally inserted the motif of the
"tearing of the heavenly veil" at both the precise beginning
and at the precise end of the earthly career of Jesus, in order to
create a powerful and intriguing symbolic inclusio." |
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"Baptism
in the Indian Context: An Event of Separation or Human Solidarity?" David C.
Scott, at Religion OnLine.
| "While we Christians positively eschew divisions based on caste, class,
race, gender, and so on, we welcome the division that comes from radical commitment to
following the Christ." |
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| "Jesus,
Apocalyptic, and World Transformation," David B. Batstone. Theology
Today, 1993.
| "It is often overlooked how
ideologically explosive the notion of the kingdom of God was within
Jesus' own social milieu. In first-century Palestine, it did not
have the same metaphorical and strictly religious connotation that
makes the term so safe within our own theological world. In fact, it
evoked the memory and visionary impulse of Yahweh who acts to
deliver Yahweh's 'chosen ones' from occupation and oppression at the
hands of alien nations. Intrinsic to that symbolic universe is the
conviction that the chosen suffer and the unjust prosper in the
present day only because history stands at the brink of a great
reversal." |
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EKBALLEI: simple word in strange context (Mk 1:12)?,
from B-Greek Archives. Sort by "subject" to follow thread. |
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A discussion of Mark 1:11 at the B-Greek
Archive. |
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| | Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| DeMaris, Richard E.,
"Possession, Good and Bad--Ritual, Effects and Side-Effects: The Baptism
of Jesus and Mark 1.9-11 from a Cross-Cultural Perspective,"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2000. |
| Garlington, Don B.,
"Jesus, the Unique Son of God: Tested and Faithful," Bibliotheca
Sacra, 1994. |
| Gibson, Jeffrey B.,
"Jesus' Wilderness Temptation according to Mark," Journal for the
Study of the New Testament, 1994. |
| Heil, John Paul,
"Jesus with the Wild Animals in Mark 1:13," The Catholic Biblical
Quarterly, 2006. |
| Jones, J. Estill,
"The Temptation Narrative," Review & Expositor, 1956. |
| Kesich, Veselin,
"Christ's Temptation in the Apocryphal Gospels and
Acts," St Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly, 1961. |
| Kesich, Veselin,
"Hypostatic and Prosopic Union in the Exegesis of Christ's Temptation,"
St Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly, 1965. |
| Mouw, Richard J.,
"Baptism and the Salvific Status of Children: An Examination of Some
Intra-Reformed Debates," Calvin Theological Journal, 2006. |
| Sahl, Joseph G.,
"The Impeccability of Jesus Christ," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1983. |
| Saunders, Daniel J.,
S.J.,
"The Devil and the Divinity of Christ," Theological Studies,
1948. |
| Taylor, Arch. B., Jr.,
"Decision in the Desert: The Temptation of Jesus in the Light of
Deuteronomy," Interpretation, 1960. |
| Taylor, Barbara
Brown,
"Four Stops in the Wilderness," Journal for Preachers, 2001. |
| Taylor, N.H.,
"The Temptation of Jesus on the Mountain: A Palestinian Christian Polemic
against Agrippa I," Journal for the Study of the New Testament,
2001. |
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Reviews:
| Lawrence, Jonathan D.,
Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual
Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature.
Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2006.
Review
by James W. Watts, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007. |
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Sermons:
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"Back to the Wilderness," 5 March 2006,
Luke Bouman, Göttinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the
RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors. |
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"Breaking the
Boundaries," Jim Fitzgerald, Preacher's Magazine, 2006. |
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"Isadore Isaac Isin,"
"Satan Sunday,"
"Sugar Cookies, Ice Cream and Popcorn,"
Sermons from Seattle,
Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. |
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"The Life of the
Beloved," Fr. Henri Nouwen, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday
Evening Club, 1991. |
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"Repentance and
Hopefulness," Fr. John Claypool, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday
Evening Club, 1999. |
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"Stopped In Your Tracks," L. Gregory
Bloomquist, Saint Paul University, Ottawa. |
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"The Apple of My Eye,"
the Rev. Rosemary Brown, Day 1,
2000. |
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Father
Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and
Homily, 2003.
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With Children:
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"Jesus' Baptism and
Ministry,"
"The Temptation of Jesus,"
"Fishermen Who Became Fishers of Men," Illustrating the Story (lessons,
children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's
songs. MSSS Crafts. |
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"Temptation," Fr. Max Bowers, Kids
Church. |
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"Extra! Extra! Read All
About It!" Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons4kids.com. |
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"Jenny
Faces Her Fear,"
children's story by Larry Broding, word-sunday.com. |
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"It
Is Written!" The Children's Chapel. |
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"Jesus Says No to
the Devil," Sunday School
Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc. |
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"Jesus Is
Baptized and Brings the Good News," Sunday School
Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc. |
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"Crossword on Mark
1," Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles. |
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Drama:
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"Beneath the Desert Sun,"
from
A Certain Jesus by
Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical
dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications. |
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"Baptism in River Jordan," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio
and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization
of today's gospel. Claretian Publications. |
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Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
| Clip Art Images:
Mark 1:9-15,
Temptation of Jesus,
Temptation of Jesus #2, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú. |
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Mark 1:9-15, at
Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration.
Liberation emphasis. |
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Mark 1:12-15, Liturgical Drawing,
Maria d.c. Zamora,
Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use
these for free.") |
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Clip Art:
Satan Tempts Jesus, Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld woodcuts, World Mission
Collection, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. |
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Baptism
of Jesus, Henry Martin, sermons4kids.com. |
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Hymns and Music:
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Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
Art Index:
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Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
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Study Links for the Temptation Narratives
in the Other Synoptic Gospels:
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Study Links and Resources for the
Book of Mark |
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