November 23rd, 2024

This Sunday’s title is certainly appropriate: “Last Sunday of the Church Year”. The Gospel Reading is Mark 13:24-37, and Jesus in the text is talking about The End. And it could be noted at this point that there are alternate readings for this Sunday, which could also be called “Christ the King Sunday”, and that alternate (and also appropriate) Gospel reading is John 18:33-37.

The earliest manuscripts of the Bible are in the form of a codex, what could be called an old book. With this format of a book, the four Gospel accounts take up much less space than four rolls or scrolls, and they are also much easier to compare with one another.

The writings of this website for the past twelve months have been looking at the Gospel according to Mark, and this account in many ways is very similar to both the Gospel according to Matthew and the Gospel according to Luke. A comparison of these three accounts may be helpful, not in the sense of “what really happened” (that is only a relatively recent definition of “history”), but to see some different perspectives of something that is truly extremely significant, especially when it comes to God. One could say that this is “His-story”.

The last of these website writings for the Gospel according to Mark will feature a large number of the “historical presents” that are unique to this Gospel account. (That is when a past-tense verb is expected, but a present-tense verb appears in the text.) The unique historical presents are all those, up to the point when Jesus enters into Jerusalem.

After that significant event, the conflict between Jesus and the religious leaders of the day becomes much more obvious and open. And as was mentioned before in previous writings, some of these historical presents may point you to the living creature of the Lord’s throne being the lion, the living creature that reminds us of power in both what he says (in roars) and in his actions.

So, here in one place are the unique historical presents [given below in capital letters] for the majority of the Gospel according to Mark, from its beginning to Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem, on what is commonly known as Palm Sunday. The words in brackets are meant to help give some explanation to the text, since what follows are excerpts. And to help keep things somewhat short, and they have been grouped together when dealing with the same situation. And the translation is, as always, designed to be somewhat literal (and it is slightly different from the previous translations). Hopefully that is all helpful.

Hopefully what is below is not too overwhelming! There are an awful lot of texts below. The hope is that you would enjoy them in some way. (And you may be comforted in knowing that there are significantly fewer historical presents in the Gospel according to Luke. Next week’s writing will start looking at that account.)​

1:12   And immediately the Spirit, him [Jesus], HE THROWS OUT into the wilderness.
1:21   And THEY [Jesus and some disciples] ENTER into Capernaum….
1:30   Now the mother-in-law of Simon was lying down, feverish, and immediately THEY [some disciples] SAY to him [Jesus] about her….
1:36-38   And they hunted him [Jesus], Simon and the ones with him, and they found him, and THEY SAY to him, “All are seeking you.” And HE SAYS to them, “Let us go elsewhere….”
1:40-41   And HE COMES toward him [Jesus], a leper…. And having compassion, stretching the hand of him, he touched, and HE SAYS to him, “I am willing, be cleansed.”
2:3, 5-6, 8   And THEY COME, carrying toward him a paralytic…. And having seen, the Jesus, the faith of him, HE SAYS to the paralytic, “Child, they are forgiven, of you, the sins.” Now there were some of the writers there…. And immediately, having known, the Jesus, in the spirit of him, that thus they were dialoguing in themselves, HE SAYS to them, “Why these things are you dialoguing in the hearts of you?”
2:17   And having heard [the writers of the Pharisees], the Jesus, HE SAYS to them, “No need, they have, the ones being strong, of a doctor, but on the contrary, the ones bad having.”
2:18   And they were, the disciples of John and the Pharisees, fasting. And THEY COME and THEY SAY to him [Jesus], “On account of what, the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, now the ones of you, disciples, do not fast?”
2:24-25   And the Pharisees were saying to him [Jesus], “See, why are they doing what is not permitted?” HE SAYS to them, “Never did you read what he did, David, when a need he had…?”
3:3-4   And HE [Jesus] SAYS to the man, to the one, dry hand having, “Rise, into the middle.” And HE SAYS to them [those standing around in the synagogue], “Permitted on the Sabbath, good to do…?”
3:13   And HE [Jesus] GOES UP into the mountain, and HE CALLS TO the ones he, himself, was wanting, and they came away toward him.
3:20   AND HE [Jesus] COMES into a house, and IT COMES TOGETHER, again, the crowd, so that not to be able, they, not even bread to eat.
3:31-34   And SHE COMES, the mother of him [Jesus] and the brothers of him…. And it was sitting around him, a crowd, and THEY SAY to him, “Look, the mother of you and the brothers of you and the sisters of you, outside they are seeking you.” And answering them, HE SAYS, “Who is the mother of me and the brothers of me?” And looking around at the ones around him, in a circle, sitting, HE SAYS, “See, the mother of me and the brothers of me….”
4:13   And HE [Jesus] SAYS to them [those around him with the twelve], “You do not know, do you, the parable, this, and how all the parables will you know?”
4:35-38   And HE [Jesus] SAYS to them [the disciples], in that, the day, evening having happened, “Let us come over, into the other side.” And leaving the crowd, THEY TAKE ALONG him, as he was in the boat…. And IT HAPPENS, a rain storm, mega…. And THEY RAISE him, and THEY SAY to him, “Teacher, you do care, do you not, that we are perishing?”
5:7, 9, 15, 19   And crying in a voice, mega, HE [the demon] SAYS, “What to me and to you, Jesus, Son of the God, of the highest?” … And he [Jesus] was questioning him, “What name to you?” And HE SAYS to him, “Legion, name to me, because many we are.” And THEY [the city and countryside] COME toward the Jesus, and THEY BEHOLD the demonized, sitting … and they feared. And not he [Jesus] allowed him [the demonized], but on the contrary, HE SAYS to him, “Go into the house of you….”
5:22ff.   [The following text has an abundance of historical presents, and for this reason, and since this text was connected to a resurrection (and Jesus’ resurrection was in this Gospel account, in a sense, quite minimal), this text was covered with these writings quite recently. Because of the recent coverage, a much shorter summary of the text is given here.] And HE COMES, one of the arch-synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, HE FALLS toward the feet of him, and HE EXHORTS him much…. Now the Jesus, having overheard the word being spoken, HE SAYS to the arch-synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” And THEY COME into the house of the arch-synagogue, and HE BEHOLDS a commotion. HE SAYS to them…. HE TAKES ALONG…. HE GOES INTO…. HE SAYS to her….
6:1   And he [Jesus] came out from there, and HE COMES into the father-town of him, and THEY FOLLOW him, the disciples of him.
6:7   And HE [Jesus] CALLS TOWARD the twelve, and he began, them, to send out, two by two, and he was giving to them authority of the spirits, the unclean.
6:30-31, 37-38   And THEY SYNAGOGUE, the apostles, toward the Jesus, and they reported to him all which they did and which they taught. And HE SAYS to them, “Come….” Now the one having answered, he said to them, “Give to them, you, to eat.” And THEY SAY to him, “Having gone away, we may buy, of denarii, two hundred breads, and will we give to them to eat?” Now the one, HE SAYS to them, “How many breads do you have? Go, see.”
6:48   And having seen them [the disciples] being tormented in the rowing, for it was, the wind, against them, about fourth watch of the night, HE [Jesus] COMES toward them, walking upon the lake, and he was wanting to come by them.
7:5   And THEY QUESTION him [Jesus], the Pharisees and the writers, “On account of what, not they walk, the disciples of you, according to the tradition of the presbyters, but on the contrary, with common hands, they eat the bread?”
7:17-18   And when he [Jesus] entered into a house from the crowd, they were questioning him, the disciples of him, the parable. And HE SAYS to them, “Thus also, yourselves, unwise are you?”
7:27-28   And he [Jesus] was saying to her [the Syrophoenician woman], “Let first, to be satisfied, the children, for not it is good to take the bread of the children and to the dogs, to throw. Now the one answering, and SHE SAYS to him, “Lord, and the dogs under the table, they eat from the crumbs of the children.”
7:32-34   And THEY [the crowd] CARRY to him a deaf and mute man, and THEY EXHORT him that he lay upon him, the hand. And having taken away him from the crowd, according to own, he threw the fingers of him into the ears of him, and having spit, he touched the tongue of him, and having looked up into the heaven, he groaned and HE SAYS to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, be opened.
8:1-2, 6   In those, the days, again, a great crowd, being and not having anything they may eat, calling toward the disciples, HE [Jesus] SAYS to them, “I have compassion upon the crowd….” And HE [Jesus] COMMANDS to the crowd to recline upon the ground….
8:12   And having groaned in the spirit of him [Jesus], HE SAYS, “Why the generation, this, is seeking a sign?”
8:16-17, 18-20   And they were dialoguing toward one another that breads, not they have. And knowing, HE [Jesus] SAYS to them [the disciples], “Why do you dialogue that breads, not you have? And you do remember, do you not, when the five breads I broke into the five thousand, how many baskets of fragments, full, you took?” THEY SAY to him, “Twelve.” When the seven into the four thousand, how many “baskets”, fillings of fragments you took?” And THEY SAY to him, “Seven.”
8:22   And THEY [Jesus and the followers] COME into Bethsaida. And THEY [the people] BRING to him a blind man, and THEY EXHORT him that him, he would touch.
8:29   And he himself [Jesus] was questioning them, “Now you, what me, you say to be?” Answering, the Peter, HE SAYS to him, “You, yourself, are the Christ.”
8:33   Now the one [Jesus], having turned around and having seen the disciples of him, he rebuked Peter, and HE SAYS, “Go behind me, Satan, because not you know the things of the God, but on the contrary, the things of the men.”
9:5   And answering, the Peter, HE SAYS to the Jesus, “Rabbi, good it is for us here, to be [on the Mount of Transfiguration]….”
9:19   Now the one [Jesus] answering them [the crowd], HE SAYS, “O generation, unbelieving, until when toward you, will I be?”
9:35   And having sat, he [Jesus] called the twelve and HE SAYS to them, “If anyone wishes, first to be, he will be of all, last and of all, a servant.”
10:1   And from there, rising up, HE COMES into the regions of the Judea and beyond the Jordan, and THEY GO WITH, again, crowds, toward him, and as custom, again, he was teaching them.
10:11   And HE [Jesus] SAYS to them [the disciples], “If anyone dismisses the wife of him and marries another, he commits adultery against her.”
10:23-24, 26-27   And looking around, the Jesus, HE SAYS to the disciples of him, “How difficult the ones, the riches having, into the kingdom of the God, they will enter into. Now the disciples marveled upon the words of him. Now the Jesus again, answering, HE SAYS to them, “Children, how difficult it is, into the kingdom of the God to enter….” Now the ones, exceedingly they were astonished, saying toward themselves, “And who is able to be saved?” Looking at them, the Jesus, HE SAYS, “With men, impossible, but on the contrary, not with God; for all things, possible with the God.”
10:35, 42   And THEY GO TOWARD him [Jesus], Jacob and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, “Teacher, we want that the whatever we ask you, you do for us.” And calling toward them [the disciples], the Jesus, HE SAYS to them….
10:46, 49   And THEY [Jesus and the disciples] COME into Jericho. And going out, he, from Jericho, and the disciples of him and a crowd, worthy, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way. And standing, the Jesus said, “Call him.” And THEY [the crowds] CALL the blind one, saying to him, “Be of good courage, rise, he is calling you.”
11:1-2, 7, 15   And when THEY [Jesus and the disciples] DRAW NEAR into Jerusalem, into Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of the Olives, HE SENDS OUT two of the disciples of him, and HE SAYS to them, “Go out into the village, the opposite of you, and immediately, entering into it, you will find a colt….” And THEY BRING the colt toward the Jesus, and THEY THROW UPON it the garments of them, and he sat upon it…. And THEY COME into Jerusalem. And having entered into the temple, he began to throw out the ones selling and the ones buying in the temple….