Luke-Acts, although not as markedly negative in its portrayal of Judaism as Matthew and John, is still often considered to be of greater interest than Mark in discussing Jewish-Christian relations because of its focus on such issues as table fellowship (notably Acts 10,11), the actions of Acts’ central character, Paul, and the link to his letters, especially Galatians and Romans. However a brief comment on Luke-Acts is also in order before we begin. In the discussion below we shall examine what Mark does have to say on Jews and the contemporary forms of Judaism at its time of authorship. Again, such an expression is absent in Mark.Ī first observation that we might venture then is that Mark, far from being of no interest to us, is highly interesting in the absence of these overtly anti-Judaic sentiments so often discussed in Matthew and John.
The last mentioned of which also seeks to focus culpability for Jesus’ death on ‘the Jews’. Similarly, John has a markedly hostile tone in its use of a characteristic phrase ‘the Jews’.
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Matthew reads “for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you” whereas Luke reads “for that is how their fathers treated the prophets.” In these two examples, the trial of Jesus and the final beatitude, one can discern a polemical tendency in Matthew which is absent in Mark. Another notable feature in Matthew is the final beatitude (Mt 4:11,12) there is a critical difference between this and the parallel in Luke 6:23. This is placed in juxtaposition with the dream of Pilate’s wife (Mt 27:19), which functions to remove guilt from the Roman authorities (compare Mark 15:1-20). The major one of these is the crowd’s cry, “Let his blood be on us and on our children” (Mt 27:25). In Matthew, attention is often focussed on peculiar injections into the narrative of Jesus’ trial which highlight Jewish culpability for the subsequent outcome. The main reason for this is that Matthew and John, in particular, have notable passages which have been considered to have a strong flavour of anti-Judaism. Mark’s story of Jesus has attracted much less interest than the other gospel narratives in debates concerning the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. The Gospel of Mark and Judaism By Robert McFarlane Introduction: Mark the Orphan.
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