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Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical Considerations
Second Sunday in Lent--March 16, 2003
Mark
8:31-38
1.
What is the literary context of this passage?
a.
How does that literary context impact a reading of this text?
2.
Why is the announcement of 8:31 to be shocking to the first
time reader of Mark’s gospel?
a.
How has the title ho hios tou anthrōpou
been used up to this point in the story?
b.
What is the significance of the juxtaposition of its previous
uses and its use here?
c.
What is the meaning/significance of the use of dei
in 8:31?
3.
What is the significance of the phrase parrēsią ton
logon in v. 32?
4.
How is Peter’s action in 8:32 to be interpreted?
a.
How does that relate to his claim in 8:29?
b.
Why is Peter addressed as Satan in v. 33?
5.
How should the word/concept phroneis in
v. 34 be understood?
a.
What is entailed in the contrast between ta tou
Theou and ta tōn anthrōpōn in v.
34?
6.
How should the word/concept of thelō in
vv. 34-35 be understood?
7.
In Mark’s context what does aparnēsasthō heautou
entail?
8.
How do vv. 35-37 use economic language/imagery to make
theological points about discipleship?
9.
How does the use of ho hios tou anthrōpou
in v. 38 relate to/contrast with its use in v. 31?
a.
What is the significance of this contrast for an
understanding of this text?
10.
What is this text claiming about Jesus, his destiny, and our
following of him?
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