7.9

Intercalation in the Gospel of Mark (Box 7.5)

Jesus’s family sets out to seize him (3:21).

Religious leaders accuse Jesus of using the power of Beelzebul (3:22–30).

Jesus’s family arrives and is rebuffed by him (3:31–35).

 

Jesus goes to heal the daughter of Jairus, a synagogue ruler (5:22–24).

A woman with hemorrhages is healed by touching Jesus’s garment (5:25–34).

Jesus raises the daughter of Jairus from the dead (5:35–43).

 

Jesus sends his disciples out on a mission (6:7–13).

Mark gives an account of how Herod killed John the Baptist (6:14–29).

The disciples return with a report of their mission (6:30).

 

Jesus curses a fig tree for not bearing fruit (11:12–14).

Jesus attacks the temple, calling it a “den of robbers” (11:15–19).

The fig tree that Jesus cursed has withered and died (11:20–21).