During the miraculous works of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, He tells the ones that He healed not to mention to anyone how exactly they were healed. He instead wants the ones He healed to go to the higher priest of their town and to just show that they were healed. This was Jesus’s way of trying to spread that there was a higher power above them, without having people think that he was the one who was to be considered God. It is made a point early in the gospel that even though most people do not know the exact identity of Jesus, there are few that can recognize Him. The people that recognize Him are the heavenly characters and the demonic characters. Although these people recognized Him, He did not want his presence to be known. “And
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At this time Jesus had not started healing people yet, He had only just come back from his forty days in the desert after his baptism. This unclean spirit recognized Jesus as a higher power such as God, “Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are-the Holy One of God.” (261) the spirit did not know what Jesus’s reason for being on Earth was, but did recognize that Jesus was a such higher power that could do damage to him. Jesus reacted to him recognizing Him by telling him to keep quiet. This reaction is similar to the reaction that is a result of Jesus healing others later in the gospel. All of the people that Jesus heals in this gospel are told by Him to not tell anyone who they were healed by but to present themselves to the priest of their city and send the message that there is an actual God be shown through the healing of them.
There are the people in the Gospel of Mark who are told not tell how they were healed, these parts of the gospel can make it possible for any reading the gospel to interpret Jesus’s actual identity to be a mere messenger of God. The healing that Jesus does and the according to the way that Jesus is described in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus’s true identity is portrayed the exact way that he is to be seen. Jesus’s miraculous healings of the many people make
At this time Jesus had not started healing people yet, He had only just come back from his forty days in the desert after his baptism. This unclean spirit recognized Jesus as a higher power such as God, “Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are-the Holy One of God.” (261) the spirit did not know what Jesus’s reason for being on Earth was, but did recognize that Jesus was a such higher power that could do damage to him. Jesus reacted to him recognizing Him by telling him to keep quiet. This reaction is similar to the reaction that is a result of Jesus healing others later in the gospel. All of the people that Jesus heals in this gospel are told by Him to not tell anyone who they were healed by but to present themselves to the priest of their city and send the message that there is an actual God be shown through the healing of them.
There are the people in the Gospel of Mark who are told not tell how they were healed, these parts of the gospel can make it possible for any reading the gospel to interpret Jesus’s actual identity to be a mere messenger of God. The healing that Jesus does and the according to the way that Jesus is described in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus’s true identity is portrayed the exact way that he is to be seen. Jesus’s miraculous healings of the many people make