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1 Lecture on the Four Gospels (Based on Mark Strauss, for PORTRAITS 1 Lecture on the four gospels (based on Mark Strauss, FOR PORTRAITS, ONE JESUS) The Synoptic Question and why John is not included Our questions: 1-Why are there three accounts and not just one? 2-Why do Matthew and Luke include most if not all of Mark? 3-Why then do Matthew and Luke contain material not in Mark? 4-Why do Matthew and Luke contain unique material, not in the other? A Solution: 1-Mark was the first gospel that was circulated, then used by Matthew and Luke. 2-Matthew and Luke had a source for sayings (Quelle-source). 3-Matthew and Luke had sources not available to the other. 4-Matthew and Luke (and Mark) shaped their gospel for their particular audience. Mark: This is the gospel of the ministry of Jesus. It stresses (10:45) that Jesus came to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. The basic outline includes three sections: preparation of the son of man/messiah (1:1-13); authoritative ministry (1:14-8:26); and suffering of the son of man/messiah as servant of the Lord (8:27- 16:8). Note that “Messiah” is redefined in this gospel and beyond to the other gospels in reference to the kingdom of God theme. Theological themes: the kingdom of God (present and future); Jesus the servant Messiah (hushes people about this until Peter’s confession, then redefined); discipleship (disciples are poor examples, Jesus is the exemplar or model for he gives (serves) his life for others. • What we have is a fast moving narrative. “Immediately” used 42 times and many verbs present tense even to describe past actions (historical present) • Emphasis on Jesus’s authority in teaching and miracles and people amazed at his authority • Emphasis on challenges to Jesus by Satan and his defeat of them • Jesus as a different Messiah, the son of man who will die for others (“he saved others, himself he cannot save”). • Outsiders become insiders through faith (hint of Gentile role)--many small and insignificant characters reveal the right response to Jesus, the “outsiders”—tax collector, woman with blood issue, Jairus, father of a demon possessed son, blind Bartimaeus, etc. • • Emphasis on his death and affirmation of him by Roman centurion testifying to Jesus (another outsider who is an insider). • Brief and enigmatic resurrection narrative (women fear) 2 Other way to see Mark: Gospel of urgency Gospel of faithless and ”dumb” disciples Gospel of Messianic secret Gospel of the ministry of Jesus Gospel of the faithful hearer/reader Other features: • Triads (e.g. three boat scenes, three predictions of his death, three times calls his disciples to the alert during sermon on Mt. of Olives, and three times sleeping in the Garden of Gethsemane) • Note that three times Jesus predicts his death, three times the disciples respond with pride and misunderstanding, and three times Jesus responds with teaching about servanthood and cross bearing discipleship-8:31-38; 9:31-37; and 10:32-45) • Irony (e.g. leaders accuse him of being in league with Satan when they are really opposing God’s kingdom-3:22, blind Bartimaeus “sees” that Jesus is the Son of David, but Jesus’ religious opponents are spiritually blind- 10:46-52) • For Jesus the kingdom will established through compassionate suffering not by conquest or violence (which is the mode of Rome) • For its length, Mark contains more miracles than the other gospels but the purpose of these miracles is not to gain popularity; they are to demonstrate that he is acting and speaking with the authority of God (the kingdom is here) • Jesus tells parables to conceal and reveal (reveal to those responding and conceal to those rejecting message with the exception of the parable of the wicked tenants which sets the stage for his arrest and death) • Of course, the key turning point in Mark’s Gospel is Peter’s confession after which the Gospel portrays Jesus as the Messiah of suffering and sacrifice • Jesus’ death is not a defeat but a sacrifice of atonement and victory over sin. • Mark presents the most human and down-to-earth portrait of Jesus. He also possesses power and authority in his teachings, healings, exorcisms, and nature miracles. MATTHEW • Jesus is the new Moses, an authentic expansion of Judaism; therefore, the authentic people of God are defined no longer by ancestry or ethnic identity 3 but by allegiance to Jesus the Messiah. Note the similarity to the early life of Moses with traveling magi bringing regal gifts with them. He will bring a new law in five parcels (like the five books of the law) • He is keen to show Jesus’s connection to “prophecies and texts from the law and the prophets. Matthew uses fulfillment formulas, e.g., virgin birth fulfills Isaiah 7:14; Jesus’ Bethlehem birth fulfills Micah 5:2; escape and return from Egypt fulfills Hosea 11:1; the murder of the infants fulfills Jeremiah 31:15; John the Baptist fulfills Isaiah 40:3; Jesus fulfills the role of the Servant in Isaiah 42:2; during his triumphal entry, he rides on a colt (Zechariah 9:9 a messianic prophecy) and is praised as the “son of David,” a messianic title and so on. • • Jesus presents five major discourses (the most recognized is the Sermon on the Mount) just as there are five books of the law. They are in chapters 5-7; 10; 13; 18; and 23-25. • The birth narrative like that in Luke is not comprehensive but a set-up for what follows. Note the genealogy which goes back to Abraham (where does the one in Luke go back to?) • Matthew centers on Joseph (why?), his dreams and actions (Luke on Mary) • Topical arrangement—collections of teaching (5-7), miracle stories (8-9), mission instructions (10), parables (13) teachings about the church (18), denunciations against the religious leaders (23) and eschatological teaching (24-25) • He structures his narrative around five major discourses, all of which end with the signal “And it came about when Jesus finished these words. .” • Another structural signal begins “From that time Jesus began to . .” This appears twice, once to mark the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry (4:17) and the beginning of his journey to Jerusalem to suffer and die (16:21) • The plot: • • Birth Narrative (1-2) • Appearance of the Messiah (3:1-4:11) • Ministry of the messiah to Israel (4:12-11:1) • Responses to the Messiah (rejection by Israel; acceptance by disciples 11:2- 20:34) • Messiah confronts Jerusalem (21:1-26:1) • Messiah is rejected but victorious/Passion and Resurrection (26-28) • His forty days in the wilderness is analogous to Israel’s forty years wandering in the wilderness. Whereas Israel was unfaithful several times and grumbling, Jesus is obedient. He quotes Old Testament passages from Deuteronomy in response to the temptations. • 8:3-not by bread alone but every word from God • 6:16-do not put the Lord to the test • 6:13-serve God only 4 • Kingdom (of heaven rather than “God”) Authority in Preaching and Healing: • Chapters 5-7—Kingdom authority in Teaching and preaching (4:23) • Chapters 8-9—Kingdom authority in Healing (9:35) • Chapter 10—Kingdom authority delegated to Disciples (11:1) • This is an inclusio (“bookends”) • All these are the account of Jesus’ public ministry • The Sermon on the mount (5-7) provides the example par excellence of Jesus’ teaching : his inaugural kingdom address. In it Jesus identifies himself as the true interpreter of the OT law and the one who fulfills its purpose. Jesus is on a mountain like Moses; he has come not to abolish the law but to fulfill it. The new law is written on the heart; he raises the standards. (”Fence”) Jesus will be training the disciples to become the new “Pharisees” without the rigidity. At first the mission is to the lost sheep of Israel, but at the “Great Commissioning,” the whole world is targeted. • Why does he speak in parables? He quotes Isaiah 6:9-10—people who hear his message and understand it will understand his parables, but those who reject him will not understand. To tell parables is a way he speaks to those who are good soil. • Matthew’s disciples are still a bit dull, lacking in faith, showing pride, but they are better than Mark’s for they show some awareness of Jesus” identity. Note how Jesus commends Peter after his confession whereas in Mark, he didn’t but pointed toward his coming death. • And the disciples being given the commission by Jesus, especially at the end of the book, places them in a more positive light. They will still fail during Jesus’s arrest and crucifixion, to be sure, but they will rebound. • Three parables allegorically depict the religious leaders and they support Matthew’s narrative purpose. • How? The first as a son who claims he will work for the father but then fails to show up (21:28-32); the second as tenant farmers who reject the vineyard owner and murder his son (21:33-45); and the third as guests who reject the king’s invitation to the wedding banquet (22:1-14). All three have the same central theme: Israel’ leaders, though spiritual insiders, are rejecting God’s purpose revealed through Jesus and so will suffer judgment. Meanwhile, outsiders will receive God’s salvation blessings. • At the trial, the religious authorities produce false evidence and false witnesses (story of Ahab and Nabal). Here the parable of the wicked tenants comes to mind.
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