I think that Mark decided to include the ten miracles into a travelogue because they connect Jesus to some of the very important Jewish Prophets. They are incorporated throughout the time of Jesus’ travels because they show his life building up to the point where he is arrested and crucified. This build up, as in… Continue reading →

I think that Mark incorporated these ten miracles into a travelogue between Jewish and non-Jewish territory because it shows that there are similar miracles for both parties. Stories tended to be clustered and grouped together. These stories in Mark, as explained by L. Michael White in Scripting Jesus, are near duplicates of one another. Therefore,… Continue reading →