Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I The first group of conflict-stories
- II The Twelve-source
- III Jesus and the devils
- IV The book of parables
- V Books of miracles
- VI Nazareth and John the Baptist
- VII Corban and miscellaneous incidents
- VIII A book of localized miracles
- IX The ‘Central Section’
- X The entry to Jerusalem
- XI A second group of conflict-stories?
- XII The warning against the scribes
- XIII The ‘Little Apocalypse’
- XIV The Passion story
- XV The Resurrection story
- SUMMARY
- INDEXES
X - The entry to Jerusalem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I The first group of conflict-stories
- II The Twelve-source
- III Jesus and the devils
- IV The book of parables
- V Books of miracles
- VI Nazareth and John the Baptist
- VII Corban and miscellaneous incidents
- VIII A book of localized miracles
- IX The ‘Central Section’
- X The entry to Jerusalem
- XI A second group of conflict-stories?
- XII The warning against the scribes
- XIII The ‘Little Apocalypse’
- XIV The Passion story
- XV The Resurrection story
- SUMMARY
- INDEXES
Summary
At xi. I we come to the opening of the Passion story. Mark has given a plausible connection between the journey from Galilee and the triumphal entry by inserting the story of Bartimaeus, which was located at Jericho by his source; it is of course quite probable that it actually occurred during the last journey to Jerusalem. But it has no organic connection with what follows. The introduction to the story of the entry with its precise details of place would appear to come from a source which was concerned to emphasize the journey from Galilee as the introduction to the Passion. It was not the Twelve-source, since we have a reference to ‘disciples’ in the first verse; it is natural to suppose that it comes from the same source as the other account of the journey which Mark has inserted at ix. 30. The story itself is taken by Dibelius (p. 118) in a very obscure passage to centre in the prophecy of Zechariah. ‘(The donkey) can only be found by means of divine guidance, and it bears otherwise signs of something special, e.g. it has never been ridden, and it is standing tied up in the street as if made ready for the disciples. This animal bears significance because its use enables the prophecy of Zechariah ix. 9 to be fulfilled. This raises the question as to how far the prophecy had formed or transformed the narrative of the triumphal entry.’
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- The Sources of the Synoptic Gospels , pp. 77 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011