Mark's Intercalation of John the Baptist

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Mark does something really interesting with this story that we end up losing in Matthew. One thing that Mark loves to do is called intercalation, which is a fancy technical term. He puts right in the middle of it the story of John the Baptist death. That discipleship to Jesus sometimes literally means giving your life. I think Mark is trying to convey a similar message here.

Just how many Herods threatened the life of Jesus? Dr. Jason Combs explores the many Herods, their effect on Jesus and especially on the life, and death of John the Baptist and the call to sacrifice for the Savior.

00:00 Part 1–Dr. Jason Combs
00:56 Introduction of Dr. Jason Combs
04:19 How the Gospels relate to one another as testimonies
07:18 Mark 6 and Jesus is the carpenter’s son
09:46 John the Baptist was killed
15:34 Josephus’s account of John the Baptist’s death
17:44 Mark and intercalation–Markan sandwich
21:47 President Faust story about Rafael Monroy and Vincente Morales
24:12 Jesus departed by ship after hearing of John’s death
26:47 Feeding of the 5000, Moses and Jesus’s name in Hebrew
32:43 Additional details remind us of Exodus and Jesus as a New Moses
36:58 Messianic Banquet and the Essenes
42:00 Gentile vs. servant leadership
43:16 Jesus walks on the water
47:41 Commandment to be of “good cheer”
49:57 Matthew emphasizes they know who Jesus is
52:50 Mark shows Jesus’s divinity in subtle epiphanies
55:17 Beliefs about ghosts in the First Century
58:20 Matthew teaches us how Jesus is tutoring Peter
1:00:26 Jesus and Peter walk on the water
1:08:15 End of Part 1–Dr. Jason Combs

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