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Joel Marcus
Joel Marcus is professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Duke Divinity School.
The millstone (Mark 9:38-50)
Eternal punishment. Like it or not, it is a biblical concept, albeit a late-blooming one....
Counting diamonds: Mark 9:30-37
The Roman custom of lifting a newborn infant probably underlies Jesus’s symbolic action in Mark 9.
Uncommon sense: Sunday, September 17 (Mark 8:27-38)
Often Jesus’s words seem perversely contrary to sense....
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