GOSPEL OF MARK SERIES
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THE WOMEN FIND AN EMPTY TOMB
As the
passion story began with a woman of Bethany anointing Jesus, so now it ends
with the women coming to anoint his body
in the tomb. The faithfulness of the
women contrasts with the unfaithfulness of the disciples.
The
women, the only ones who had not deserted Jesus, go early to the tomb and find
it empty. The sun, already risen can
also be a symbol of Jesus already risen.
The young man, as Gethsemani suggests Jesus, now risen and at the right
hand of God, sharing the fullness of divine power. Does his message mean that Jesu have first
have revealed his resurrection in a veiled manner to the faithful women through
the unlikely sign a dark, silent and empty tomb?
Galilee,
where the disciples are told to go, was the place of beginnings, the place
Jesus first called His disciples and challenged them in astonishment and terror
with the gospel of the king of God. Now
they are to go there to see the gospel of the raising by God of the crucified
Jesus.
The
strange ending to Mark’s Gospel puzzled Christian from the earliest, times, it
seems since other ending were soon added. Most today however, favour verse 8 as
the original ending If what Mark intended to write was the ‘beginning’ of the
gospel of Jesus as in the Christ and Son of God, it makes sense the he concludes
before the resurrection of Jesus is recognised by his disciples. The shocked and terrified women become a
symbol of the moment before the gospel of resurrection burst upon the word, but
they too like the disciples, become unfaithful by saying nothing.
Each portrayed
the beginnings of the mystery of the incarnation of Jesus by a frightened, obedient
woman but Mark presents the beginnings of the mystery of the resurrection of
Jesus by frightened, disobedient women.
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