During my first reading of Mark for class, my interest peaked at Jesus' commands to people and to demons to be silent. I began researching the Messianic Secret and discovered a vast topic to research. As I continued to read on the topic, I was interested in specifically Jesus' demands to the demons to not tell who he was.
From my reading, the general consensus of scholars seems to be that these commands are Markan additions, but there are different ideas as to what purpose these commands serve. As I continue to read, I believe that the secrecy motif is important to Mark's christology and therefore answers the question "How do the miracles function in the book of Mark?"
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