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Encyclopedia > Mark 9
Gospel of Mark

Mark 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It begins with Jesus's prediction that "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power." (1) What exactly the kingdom of God refers to has been long debated. It immediately follows Jesus' statement of "...when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." (Mark 8:38) in the preceding chapter. This could simply refer to the following Transfiguration. Some have thought this refers to the Second Coming, an event most hold did not happen within the lifetimes of those present. This could be a prediction that came true if you take into account John's Revelation of the Second Coming while he was on the island of Patmos. [citation needed] Others have interpreted it as Jesus referring to his resurrection and/or the coming of Christianity. It is also recorded in Matthew 16:28 and Luke 9:27. Matthew adds the statement that "...then he will reward each person according to what he has done." between the two. The Gospel of Mark, anonymous[1] but traditionally ascribed to Mark the Evangelist, is a synoptic gospel of the New Testament. ... This article is about the chapter of the Book of Mark. ... Mark 2 is the second chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Mark 3 is the third chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Mark 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Mark 5 is the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Mark 6 is the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Mark 7 is the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... The July 1974 issue of Radio-Electronics: Build The Mark-8: Your Personal Minicomputer. The Mark-8 is a microcomputer design from 1974, based on the Intel 8008 CPU (which was the worlds first 8-bit microprocessor). ... Mark 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... This article is on the biblical chapter. ... This article is on the biblical chapter. ... Mark 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... This article is about the Biblical chapter. ... Mark 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Mark 16 is the final chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... The Gospel of Mark, anonymous[1] but traditionally ascribed to Mark the Evangelist, is a synoptic gospel of the New Testament. ... This article is about the Christian scriptures. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy, François Lemoyne, 1737 For other uses, see Truth (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Death (disambiguation), Dead (disambiguation), Death (band) or Deceased (band). ... “Kingdom of Heaven” redirects here. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... The Annunciation - the Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear Jesus (El Greco, 1575) An angel is an ethereal being found in many religions, whose duties are to assist and serve God. ... The July 1974 issue of Radio-Electronics: Build The Mark-8: Your Personal Minicomputer. The Mark-8 is a microcomputer design from 1974, based on the Intel 8008 CPU (which was the worlds first 8-bit microprocessor). ... The word Transfiguration means a changing of appearance or form. ... For other uses, see Second Coming (disambiguation). ... Saint John on Patmos by Hans Baldung Grien, 1511 Saint John of Patmos, by Jean Fouquet John of Patmos is the name given to the author of the Book of Revelation (or Book of the Apocalypse) in the New Testament. ... Visions of John of Patmos, as depicted in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. ... Skala viewed from the Monastery of Agios Ioannis Theologos, one of the UN World Heritage Sites. ... The resurrection of Jesus is an event in the New Testament in which God raised him from the dead[1] after his death by crucifixion. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Christianity is... The Gospel of Matthew (literally, according to Matthew; Greek, Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον, Kata Maththaion or Kata Matthaion) is a synoptic gospel in the New Testament, one of four canonical gospels. ... The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά Λουκαν, Kata Loukan) is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament. ...

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The Transfiguration

The Transfiguration (1520) by Raphael

Six days pass then Jesus takes Peter, James and John up an unnamed high mountain, which many came to believe was Mount Tabor. Suddenly Jesus' cloths become dazzingly white "...whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them." (3) and Elijah and Moses appear. The disciples are stunned (for the first time Mark uses the term Rabbi, Strong's G4461) and ask what they should do and offer to put up shelters for them. A voice comes from a cloud and says that "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" (7) which is what Jesus heard the "voice from heaven" say when he was baptised by John the Baptist in Mark 1 (Mark 1:11) but now Mark has Peter, James, and John as witnesses to this. Elijah and Moses disappear and they head down the mountain. On the way down Jesus tells them to keep what had happened to themselves until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They are confused as to what he means but do not ask him to clarify himself. They ask him about Elijah and he says: A detail from The Transfiguration by Raphael. ... A detail from The Transfiguration by Raphael. ... Icon of the Transfiguration (15th century, Novgorod) The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported by the Synoptic Gospels in which Jesus was transfigured upon a mountain (Matthew 17:1-9, Mark 9:1-8, Luke 9:28-36). ... “St Peter” redirects here. ... Saint James the Great (d. ... John the Apostle (Greek Ιωάννης, see names of John) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. ... Mount Tabor may refer to a number of places: Mount Tabor is a hill in the Holy Land near Nazareth. ... Elijah, 1638, by José de Ribera This article is about the prophet in the Hebrew Bible. ... Moses with the Tablets, 1659, by Rembrandt This article is about the Biblical figure. ... For the town in Italy, see Rabbi, Italy. ... In the synoptic gospels, Jesus is baptised by John the Baptist. ... This article is about the chapter of the Book of Mark. ... For other uses, see Son of man (disambiguation). ...

...Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought. But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him. (Mark 9:12-13) KJV

It was commonly believed that Elijah would reappear before the coming of the Messiah, as predicted in Malachi 4. Matthew 17:13 states that the three of them believed Jesus was comparing Elijah to John the Baptist. Moses could be seen as a representative of the law and Elijah a representative of the prophets. In Judaism, the Messiah (Hebrew: , Standard  Tiberian ; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , ; the Anointed One) at first meant any person who was anointed with oil on rising to a certain position among the ancient Israelites, at first that of High priest, later that of King and also that of a prophet. ... Malachi (or Malachias, מַלְאָכִי, Malʾaḫi, Málakhî) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, written by the prophet Malachi. ... St. ... Torah, (תורה) is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or especially law. It primarily refers to the first section of the Tanakh–the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, or the Five Books of Moses, but can also be used in the general sense to also include both the Written... Neviim [נביאים] or Prophets is the second of the three major sections in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible). ...


This whole passage has echos of Exodus 24 where clouds covered Mount Sinai for six days before Moses went up to receive the ten commandments. This article is about the second book in the Torah. ... For the Biblical Mount Sinai, and a discussion of its possible locations, see Biblical Mount Sinai. ... This article is about a list of ten religious commandments. ...


The original Greek uses the word metamorphothe which was translated into Latin as Trans Figura, the changing of appearance or of the body itself. For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...


The Possessed Boy

They arrive back and find the rest of the disciples (students) arguing with several teachers surrounded by a crowd. Jesus asks "what are you arguing about...?" (v 16) and a man says he brought his possessed boy for Jesus to heal. The boy "...foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid." (18), which sound like the symptoms of perhaps epilepsy, which Matthew 17:15 states to be the case. The man says the boy has been made to fall both into water and fire by the demon. Jesus' disciples could not heal him. Jesus says "You faithless generation" (v 19). He commands the boy be brought to him. The father begs Jesus to help the boy if he can, to which Jesus replies ""Everything is possible for him who believes." (23) and the man says "I believe. Help my unbelief!"(v 24) Jesus heals the boy: when asked by the disciples privately why they couldn't cast it out, he replies "This kind can come out only through prayer" (v 29). In Christianity, the disciples were the students of Jesus during his ministry. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      This article...


Predictions about the crucifixion

Jesus tells his entire group that the Son of Man will be killed and rise after three days. They still don't understand what he means but are afraid to ask him to clarify himself. This is Jesus' second prediction of the Passion. Skeptics dismiss these predictions as not actually made by the real Jesus but regard them as an example of vaticinium ex eventu. Scholars such as Raymond E. Brown believe however "The difficulty in dismissing all these predictions as totally postJesus creations is exemplified in 9:31 where many scholars recognize Semitic features and old tradition." (140) For other uses, see Son of man (disambiguation). ... The Passion is the theological term used for the suffering, both physical and mental, of Jesus in the hours prior to and including his trial and execution by crucifixion. ... This article is about the psychological term. ... Vaticinium ex eventu (Prophecy from the event) is a technical theological or historiographical term referring to a prophecy written after the author already had information about the events he was foretelling. The text is written so as to appear that the prophecy had taken place before the event. ... Raymond Edward Brown (May 22, 1928 - August 8, 1998), was an American Roman Catholic priest and Biblical scholar. ... In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical Shem, Hebrew: שם, translated as name, Arabic: سام) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages. ...


Teaching in Capernaum

They go back to Capernaum and Jesus asks what the disciples were arguing about on the trip. They don't answer because they were arguing about who is the greatest disciple, probably because Jesus only took the three with him up the mountain and the remaining nine could not cure the boy. Jesus already knows what they were talking about however and says "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." (35) He takes a child in his arms and says whoever welcomes children welcomes him and therefore God. Catholic church built over the house of Saint Peter Capernaum (pronounced k-pûrn-m; Hebrew כפר נחום Kefar Nachum, Nahums hamlet) was a settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. ...


John says some other group of people have been healing people in Jesus' name even though they were not part of the group but Jesus is pleased and says "...For he who is not against us is for us." (9:40). In Matthew 12:30 and Luke 11:23 Jesus says: "He who is not with Me is against Me"; see also You're either with us, or against us. The disciples seem to think one needs to be part of Jesus' personal group but Jesus makes clear that anyone who works in his name and does his work is also for him. The statement Youre either with us, or against us can sometimes be interpreted as a false dilemma, i. ...


He then gives one of the most forceful condemnations of sin in the Bible: For other uses, see Sin (disambiguation). ...

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. (42-50) KJV

What exactly the "salt" Jesus was referring to was is unclear. Jesus relates it to fire, the good, and peace. Salt was seen as a thing of purity, but salt also has destructive properties and was used as a preservative. "Salt" might simply refer to his teaching. It also might be seen as an interlocking double metaphor relating the salt required in sacrifices to God found in Leviticus 2:11,13 to the "salt" of the sacrifice of Christ and to the "salt" required to be in followers of Jesus as metaphorical sacrifices as in Romans 12 and also relating the salt of the old covenant from Leviticus 2:11,13 to the "salt" of the new or renewed covenant. See Salt in Mark. See also Salt and Light. The Inferno redirects here. ... A peace dove, widely known as a symbol for peace, featuring an olive branch in the doves beak. ... For other uses, see Fire (disambiguation). ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... This article is about metaphor in literature and rhetoric. ... Marcus Aurelius and members of the Imperial family offer sacrifice in gratitude for success against Germanic tribes: contemporary bas-relief, Capitoline Museum, Rome For other uses, see Sacrifice (disambiguation). ... Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, also the third book in the Torah (five books of Moses). ... The Epistle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of the Christian Bible. ... Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, also the third book in the Torah (five books of Moses). ... Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6). ... Some of the elaborations on the Salt and Light metaphors that Matthew recounts are also paralleled in Luke, but in completely different parts of the narrative, which leads scholars to suspect they originate in the Q document, which is essentially thought to be a collection of quotes with little narrative...

The Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem
The Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem

The original manuscripts use the word Gehenna for Hell. Gehenna was a trash dump next to Jerusalem in the Hinnom valley where the dead bodies of criminals as well as trash was burned. The valley was named after a man named Hinnom who had owned it. It had at one time been used as a place to sacrifice live children to Pagan Gods. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 637 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 637 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ... Human sacrifice is the act of killing a human being for the purposes of making an offering to a deity or other, normally supernatural, power. ... Pagan and heathen redirect here. ... Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Luke 9 almost has the entire chapter of Mark 9 contained verbatim with the notable exception of the speech about sin that is partly contained in Luke, chapter 17. Matthew has the Transfiguration and the possessed boy followed by a slightly altered and expanded scene in Capernaum in chapters 17 and 18. John lists none of this, which has puzzled many scholars since one would think John, since he was one of the only three there, would mention the Transfiguration. This could mean that Mark is wrong about either the event or John being there, the Gospel of John was not written by the Apostle John, or John knew the synoptics were circulating and wrote his gospel to fill in details he thought lacking in them. For other uses, see Gospel of John (disambiguation). ... John the Apostle (Greek Ιωάννης, see names of John) was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. ... In the New Testament of the Christian Bible, gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke are so similar that they are called the synoptic gospels (from Greek, συν, syn, together, and οψις, opsis, seeing). ...


References

  • Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the New Testament Doubleday 1997 ISBN 0-385-24767-2
  • Kilgallen, John J. A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark Paulist Press 1989 ISBN 0-8091-3059-9
  • Miller, Robert J. Editor The Complete Gospels Polebridge Press 1994 ISBN 0-06-065587-9
Chapters of the Bible
Preceded by:
Mark 8
Gospel of Mark
Followed by:
Mark 10


 

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