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Mike Spindler (michspi@regent.edu)
BINT 500 SU08 DE
Assignment 6 (Mark 4:35 - 6:6a)
NASB
Selected Mark 5:25-34 (para.
4) for detailed analysis.
Part 2, 5, & 6
Part 5: 3 questions from para.
4: Q2 This question is based on a category 1 observation, not a category 2., Q3 Same comment as for Q2., & Q4
2 questions between 3 or more paragraphs/segments: Q1 & Q5
Part 6: Answer at least 2 questions.
I answered all and wanted to see if I got the categories correct - subjective or objective.
What do you mean by subjective and objective in your answers?
I'm confused.
Observation 1 (Cat 1): Previous to this segment Mark has documented Jesus providing explanations in parables (4:2, 4:26, 4:30), healing (1:34, 1:41, 2:5, 3:5), and casting out demons (1:25, 1:34.)
In this segment Mark shows a progression in Jesus' interactions - He is not providing any explanations or discourse, but focusing His actions on directing (4:35) and commanding (4:39, 5:8, 5:41) with greater vocal authority.
Good.
Question 1 (B): Why is there a progression of Jesus' actions in this specific direction from explanations and parables to commanding with no explanations?
Good.
Answer: (Subjective) As the coming Messiah it was important that Jesus set the authority of God apart from the rationale discourse of man.
There was a time to teach for understanding.
And there was a time to walk in the authority as God, and as man - The Ambassador. (Objective)
Observation 2 (Cat 1): There is a particularization in healing that Jesus is introducing from the previous segments into this one.
Healing was something that occurred as the sick and possessed came to Jesus and He responded on their behalf.
Give some Scripture references for this statement.
In this segment (5:34) Mark documents that Jesus took no action to heal the woman and yet she was still healed by Jesus, but it was her faith that caused the action.
I'm not sure where your particularization comes in.
This sounds more like contrast.
Question 2 (B): Why did the woman's faith, something she initiated, provide a resulting action?
Good, but see my change.
Answer: (Objective) Later in Mark (9:23) Jesus is quoted as stating “All things are possible to him who believes.”
It wasn't her faith in healing, it was her faith in Jesus' power (ability) and knowledge of His willingness to heal.
That is the Gospel connection under the new covenant - by faith God acts on our behalf to save, to heal, to deliver, to fulfill.
Good.
Question 3 (E): What were the implications of this healing since it was initiated by the woman's faith?
Good.
Answer: (Objective) There exists a key aspect of the Gospel message - Jesus' promise has no strings attached, offered by Him and accepted by us.
Words like this make your answer one of application more than interpretation.
It wasn't initiated by Jesus, but the woman came and took the (offered) gift, and she paid nothing for the healing or His blessing.
John states it clearly in John 3:15 “… so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.”
Good overall, but see my comment.
Observation 3 (Cat 2 - Para.
4): There is an explanation of how the woman that touched Jesus' garments was healed (5:29) in Mark 5:34 when He explains that it is the woman's faith that made her well.
Good.
Question 4 (B): Why did the woman choose to touch Jesus' garment when the model to this point was to have Him touch the person and pronounce healing?
Okay, but be careful here.
There is no mention of a “model” of healing in your observation.
If you're going to ask a question like this, simply ask, “Why did the woman touch Jesus' garment for healing?”
A better question is to ask a question focused directly on your relation of explanation here - “Why did Jesus explain that the woman's faith made her well?”
Answer: (Subjective) The answer is given in the text - the woman thought… “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.”
(5:28) She was tired and sick after a very long illness and was in the crowd behind Him - perhaps there was no way for her to obtain Jesus' attention - so she rationalized that if He can heal, then so can simply touching Him.
This is also pivotal in explaining the Gospel - that faith is our action - in accepting God's many gifts.
Good!
Observation 4 (Cat 3 - Para. 3 & 5): A progression occurs between Jairus approaching Jesus with the story of his daughter “at the point of death” (5:23) and the later paragraph when they arrive at Jairus' home (5:35) after other events.
Okay, but there are other relations you could use here that are much more precise than progression.
Examples - complementation (beginning-interruption-sequel) or interchange.
Question 5 (C): Why did Mark break this story up into the two paragraphs with the other healing in between?
What other healing in between?
It's not in your observation so don't ask about it.
Your question here sounds like it goes with a relation of complementation (beginning-interruption-sequel) or of interchange.
Answer: (Subjective) This is a chronological account and events occurred in this order.
Perhaps there is also the need to show the synagogue official's need over time and that he had to wait until the point where his daughter apparently died.
Time was not relevant to Jesus - from the moment her father humbled himself and Jesus starting walking toward the girl - she was going to get up.
Interesting insights!
Observation 5 (Cat 4): There is a relationship of continuity between the paragraphs in this segment that show Jesus is powerful.
Para.
1: Jesus calms the sea (4:39.)
Para.
2: Jesus casts out the Legion of demons (5:8.)
Para.
4: Jesus notes power has gone out from Him (5:30.)
Para.
5: Jesus commands Jairus' daughter to get up (5:43.)
Para.
6: Jesus explains why there is a lack of power displayed in Nazareth (6:4.)
Including this last paragraph and verse in your observation makes your observation more of a contrast.
Good, but I would call this a cat 3 rather than a cat 4 since you appear more focused on individual verses rather than on paragraphs as wholes.
Question 6 (D): Amongst a solid continuous account of events why is it true that “He could do no miracles” (6:5) in Nazareth when Jesus is God and the preceding paragraphs detail convincingly that He is all powerful?
Good, but see my change.
It also sounds like a question based on a relation of contrast.
Answer: (Subjective) The answer to this appears wrapped up in Jesus being fully God and fully man.
He rested, slept, ate, prayed, and had emotions.
His limitations as a man in this trip apparently rested in the audience.
He either found it impossible, difficult, or by preference - did not perform more than just a few miracles in Nazareth.
(More study necessary to develop a solid understanding.)
Good! Yes, more study is necessary.
Observation 6 (Cat 2): At the moment that the woman touched Jesus' garment there was a contrast between what Jesus knew (“Who touched Me?” 5:31) and what the woman knew (“the woman… aware of what had happened…” 5:33.)
Great!
Question 7 (B): Jesus was God on the earth - what could cause Him to not know not only who the woman was that had drawn power from Him but wouldn't know it in advance as she approached?
Okay, but again, focus on your relation.
“Why did Mark record this contrast between what Jesus knew and what the woman knew?” “What does this contrast mean?”
Answer: (Objective) Jesus was a man on the earth.
(Is.
7:14, Mt. 1:18-25)
(Subjective) As a man, Jesus had limitations of knowledge.
Good - but go a little deeper.
Part 3
Broad structure of vss.
5:25-34.
1. Woman with a hemorrhage for 12 years (5:25-28) specification Call this preparation or introduction instead.
“Specification” is not a relation.
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