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SUMMARY:St. Mark
DESCRIPTION:ST MARK’S GOSPEL\nBy Dom Damasus Winzen 5\n◊◊◊\nIn contrast to St Matthew\, who starts his gospel with the human\ngenealogy of Christ\, “the son of David\, the son of Abraham\,” and to Luke\, who\nexplains in his short preface that he intends to “write in order” the facts which\nhe has most diligently obtained\, St Mark’s gospel keeps most faithfully the\noriginal character of the glad tidings of Christ as the Son of God and the\nMessiah. He writes not as a historian but as a preacher\, recording faithfully\nwhat he had heard from St Peter. In fact\, St Peter’s address to the Roman\ncolonel Cornelius contains the outlines of St Mark’s gospel. This begins with\n“the baptism which John preached” and how “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth\nwith the Holy Spirit\, and with power”; The first main section describes Christ’s\nministry in Galilee\, the “word which began in Galilee\, about Jesus of Nazareth\,\nwho went about doing good\, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil\,\nfor God was with him”. A brief survey deals with “the things that he did in the\nland of the Jews (Judea) and in Jerusalem”\, and leads up to the second main\nsection of the gospel which tells us how “they killed him\, hanging him upon a\ntree\,” and how “God raised him up on the third day\, and gave him to be made\nmanifest”. \nThe fact that St Mark’s narrative of the Lord’s passion and resurrection is\non a scale out of all proportion with the rest of the book indicates clearly that in\nthe intention of the evangelist the person of the suffering and glorified Lord is\nthe core and center of the glad tidings. Here is the key to the “mystery of the\nKingdom of God” which his gospel proclaims. One has only to read the first\nchapter of St Mark’s gospel to realize that the mystery of the kingdom is the \ncross of the king. This first chapter contains the “beginnings” of the entire\ngospel. The activity of the precursor is the “beginning” of Christ’s work of\nsalvation. As Christ reveals the mystery of the kingdom in his word and in his\nwork\, so does John preach repentance and administer baptism. Because the\nkingdom of God will not come in power and glory but in the self-sacrificing\ncharity of the Son of God\, only those can enter into it who “repent” or\, better\,\n“change their hearts” from the selfishness of the flesh to the selflessness of the\nSpirit. \nThe rite of baptism\, through which the whole person is immersed in water\nand then rises\, as it were\, to a new life\, foreshadows the work of salvation of the\nMessiah Jesus who will be swallowed up in the waters of death to rise in the\nfullness of the Spirit. Rightly\, therefore\, does Christ begin his public life as\nMessiah by having himself baptized by John. He who never knew sin and did\nnot need repentance has himself made into sin for us\, so that in him we might\nbe turned into the holiness of God. His death is like another flood which drowns\nall that is earthly in us. \nWhen he “comes up out of the water” foreshadowing his resurrection\, he\nis like another Noah\, the favorite son of God. Like Noah he receives the dove\,\nthe likeness of the Holy Spirit who descends upon this new Son of David\, to\ndrive him like a captive into the desert. There he is “with the wild beasts.”\nExposed to the attack of the enemy\, he remains victorious so that after forty\ndays and forty nights\, which are symbolic of the “old age\,” the angels come and\nminister to him as the Lord of the new age. Through humiliation to exaltation\,\nthat is the way of the Messiah Jesus\, who in his life repeats and fulfills the march\nof the chosen people from Egypt\, through the Red Sea into the desert\, and\nultimately to the promised land. \n5 Damasus Winzen\, Pathways in Scripture\, Ann Arbor\, MI: Word of Life\, 1976\, pp. 243-245.
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