As I was reading Garland he pointed something out that I, until then, had not thought about. Garland stated that Mark was the only gospel that did not get into the human background of Jesus. Mark wants you to view Jesus as "more than human" but a "divine being". Matthew and Luke both sink their teeth into where Jesus came from in a human perspective. They both write about Jesus' ancestors, but Mark just kind of hits the high spots of Jesus' human side and focuses on Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. People often ask about Jesus as a teenager and why we don't read about His childhood years in the Bible, but I think that Mark "hits the nail on the head", Jesus wasn't a normal teenager, He wasn't a normal child, He was and is always divine and superior. I had read the Bible before, but I had never really thought about how the Disciples viewed Jesus.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment