Mark Goodacre

Hi, my name is Mark Gdaker. I'm sitting in my office at Duke University. I'm teaching a course here this semester on Jesus and the Gospels. And today we were talking about the family of Jesus, his brothers, his sisters. And the thing about the brothers is that they're named in Mark 6:3. The crowd at

name is Mark Gdaker. I'm sitting in my office at Duke University. I'm teaching a course here this semester on Jesus and the Gospels. And today we were talking about the family of Jesus, his brothers, his sisters. And the thing about the brothers is that they're named in Mark 6:3. The crowd at the sy

ary English and I'm happy that they accepted it but but the funny thing is is that elsewhere in the New Testament they stick with the old translation stumbling block the Greek word is scandalon from which uh the we derive our word Scandal but please don't translate it Scandal that's the eological po

you think for example of the opening of the epistle to the Romans he has right there a definition of what he means by gospel and it's the good news about Jesus coming to earth dying and being resurrected so this term gospel already has wide currency in earliest Christianity one of the reasons that t

t word perish is isn't really used much in contemporary English you don't talk about people perishing unless you're being really melodramatic you would generally say die and this is one of the difficulties because the the King James version it exercises this influence on the way that we think about

us translation of the Bible ever is the King James version or the authorized version and it it's a great literary work in its own right there's that great moment in pigmon when Henry Higgins speaks about the English language as being the language of Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible and when he s

Really what it is, it's looking at the evangelist as editors, looking at them as authors, looking at how they crafted their source material in ways that affected their theological, literary, and other interests. And it's it's pretty intuitive once you start looking at the gospels side by side. You l

you get John's students again in Mark 629 when they collect John's body after his death that's also in Matthew 14:12 and then in Matthew 11:2 parallel Luke 7:18 John sends his disciples to inquire about Jesus and this is the same word again he's sending his students the fares send their students to

you say disciples it slightly changes the feel of it and in case you think this is completely crazy there are actually some places in the New Testament when we do take that word Maes and we do translate it as student the most prominent example of this is in Matthew 10:24 to2 which is paralleled in L

t Jesus is teaching albe it that in Mark they quite often struggle to understand and notice that there are other students in the gospels too it's not not just Jesus who has students so John the Baptist has students and the Pharisees have students and they fast in Mark 2:18 and it's parallel Luke 530