The Shape of Things to Come
Chapter 2 begins a period of controversy between Jesus and the religious authorities which ends with their decision to kill Jesus at Mark 3:6.1 Mark has shaped this section into five controversies whose subject matter is arranged and crafted to make the point that there can be no mixing of the old and the new. Jesus explicitly says this in 2:21-22 when talking about the unshrunk and old cloth, and new and old wine skins. The arrangement of the controversies reinforces that central point.2 (Image after Marcus, pp 214) 
Andrea Prior (January 2025)
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1. Mark 3:6 "The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him. "
2. See, for example, Marcus, pp214, based on the work of Joanna Dewey.
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