Authorship In Jesus Research Paper

Famous American novelist E.L. Doctorow once said, “Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” What I admire about authorship is the fact that someone can take nothing and turn it into something. The only being that I know that is powerful enough to make that sort of creation is God. Therefore, I do believe that God’s work is at hand when an author sits down to write. This is definitely the case when it comes to the Bible. Its authors were guided by God in what to write and when to write it. The Bible was meant to be a Christian instructions manual. Most Christians are told to use Jesus as an example, so today I will examine a healing miracle that Jesus performs in the book of Mark. First, let us touch on the authorship

The first portion of the book of Mark is about Jesus and his works. We are told of his miracles, his preaching, his parables, his prayers, etc. The passages directly before Mark 3:1-6 addresses the sabbath when “he said to them, ‘The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the son of man is lord even of the sabbath’” (Mark 2:27-28). This is setting the stage for the passage to come, identifying that he, the son of man, is still lord on day seven. This gives his work validation in Mark 3:1-6. Beginning at verse 7, Jesus preaches by the sea where the demons throw themselves at Jesus’s feet and shout, “You are the Son of God! But he [Jesus] sternly ordered them not to make him known” (Mark 3:11-12). This again gives validation to Jesus’s miracles on the

Thought this may seem like a short section, a lot can be said about it. The word “again” and article “the” imply that Jesus returned and visited the Synagogue in Capernaum. According to Robert H. Stein, author of Mark: Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, the story following this one (Mark 3:7) where Jesus goes to the sea supports the idea that Mark 3:1-6 takes place in Capernaum. The second half of the verse explains that “a man was there who had a withered hand.” Stein explains that “the perfect passive participle [according to the Hebrew text] may suggest a prolonged illness, possibly from birth” (Stein 153). Therefore, the first verse identifies the location and seriousness of the injury. This is what makes the result so