| Using
Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical Considerations
Mark
1:9-15
1st
Sunday in Lent/ March 9, 2003
1.
What is the literary context of this passage?
a.
How does that literary context impact an understanding of
this passage?
2.
How does v. 11
a.
Echo Ps 2:7?
b.
Echo Gen 22:2?
c.
Echo 2 Sam 22:20?
3.
What do these echoes tell us about Jesus’
a.
Identity?
b.
Mission?
c.
God’s view of Jesus and Jesus’ relationship to God?
4.
How does the declaration in v. 11 anticipate Christological
declarations in 9:7; 12:6; 15:39?
a.
Ultimately, in Mark’s gospel what does being God’s royal son
entail?
5.
What is the significance of the fact that the Spirit
immediately throws Jesus out into the wilderness?
a.
How else is the verb ekballō used in
Mark?
b.
How does that relate to its use here?
c.
What does this say about the Spirit’s activity and Jesus’
path in Mark’s gospel?
6.
Up to this point in the story, what has occurred in the
wilderness?
a.
How does that relate to the theological location of the
wilderness in this passage?
b.
What does that say about the connection between John’s
ministry and Jesus’ ministry?
7.
What is the significance of Jesus being tested by Satan?
a.
What type of participle is peirazomenos?
What does this signify about Satan’s testing of Jesus?
b.
How does this testing of Jesus by Satan foreshadow Jesus’
exorcisms as well as his instructions in 3:222-30?
8.
What is the significance of the tense of diēkonoun
in v. 13?
a.
How does the imagery of this action relate to the imagery of
the action depicted through the twofold use of diakoneō in 10:45?
9.
How does the term paradidômi function as
the passion term par excellence in Mark’s gospel (cf. 3:19; 9:31;
10:33; 14:10,11,18,21,41,42,44; 15:1,10,15)?
a.
What is the significance of John being handed over (paradothênai)
and how does that relate to his role of preparing Lord’s way?
b.
How does his being handed over anticipate 6:14-29; 9:9-13?
10.
How does the use of euaggelion tou Theou
in v. 14 recall 1:1?
a.
What does this indicate about Jesus and his proclamation?
11.
What are the tense and voice of peplêrôtai
in v. 14?
a.
What is the significance of these?
b.
What is Mark’s understanding of kairos,
and how has it become fulfilled here in the story?
12.
What is the tense of êggiken in v. 15?
a.
What is the significance of this?
b.
What is Mark’s understanding of the reign of God and how has
it drawn near in the story?
13.
What does the activity of repenting entail in Mark’s story?
a.
How is that related to the activity of believing in the
gospel?
14.
How does this story set up an interpretive framework for
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