| Using
Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
Exegetical Considerations
Mark
11:1-11; 15:24-39
Sunday of the Passion/ April13, 2003
1.
How does the reference to the Mount of Olives echo Zech 14:4?
a.
What is the significance of this echo for the scene at hand?
2.
What do vv. 2-6 indicate about Jesus’ prophetic powers?
a.
How does that relate to the passion prediction which have
been given in 8:31; 9:31; 10:32-34 and the impending events in the
story?
3.
What is very strange about Jesus riding a colt on which no
one has ever sat?
a.
How does this text echo Zech 9:9?
b.
What is the significance of this echo for the scene at hand?
4.
How does v. 8 echo 2 Kg 9:13?
a.
What is the significance of this echo for the scene at hand?
5.
What scripture is being echoed in vv. 9-10?
a.
What is the significance of this echo for the scene at hand?
b.
How will that scripture be used in 12:10-11?
6.
How is this text a depiction of Jesus’ royalty?
7.
How is Psalm 22 being utilized/echoed throughout the scene at
Golgotha?
a.
What is the significance of this echo for the scene at hand?
8.
How does 15:27 recall 10:35-37?
9.
How do the uses of sōzō in vv. 30-32
recall its use in 8:35?
10.
How does the use of katabainō recall its
use in 1:10?
11.
How does the use of xristos in 15:32
recall its us in 1:1?
12.
How does the reference to Elijah in 15:35-36 recall John the
Baptist references in 1:6; 9:11-13?
13.
How does the use of exepneusen in 15:37
recall 1:10?
14.
How does the direction of the curtain’s tear in 15:38 recall
1:10?
a.
What is the theological significance of the tearing of the
temple curtain?
15.
How does 15:39 recall 1:11?
a.
What is significant about this declaration being given at
this point in the story?
b.
What is significant about this declaration being given by
this particular character?
16.
How is this text a depiction of Jesus’ royalty?
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