One day there is again a great crowd without anything to eat. He calls his students and says to them — I am worried for the crowd, because they have stayed near me for three days already, and they do not have anything to eat. If I send them away to their own homes without …
[There] come from Yerushalem Separatists and some of the scholars, [who] gather [near] him, and see that some of his students are eating bread with debased, that is, unwashed, hands (for the Separatists, and all the Youdaians, if they have not washed their hands and fists, do not eat, [keeping] firmly the heritage of the …
He goes away from there, and comes to his own region, and his students follow him. Come Shabbat, he begins to teach in the synagogue, and the many, hearing, are struck, saying — From where [did] these things [come] to this [one], and what wisdom [is] given to this [one], that these kinds of deeds …
He goes to the other side of the lake, to the area of the Gerasenoi. Then, when he gets out of the boat, a person with an unclean æther, whose dwelling was in the mausoleums, comes to him from the tombs. Not even with chains can anyone ever bind him. Many times he has been …
Again he begins to teach beside the lake. A huge crowd is drawn to him, so that he boards a boat and is seated on the lake. All the crowd is on the land by the lake. He teaches them by many analogies, and says to them in his teaching: — Listen! [Once] there was …
He goes in to a synagogue again, [where] there is a person with a shriveled hand. They observe whether he will attend to him on Shabbat, so they can accuse him. He says to the person with the dried-up hand — Come up to the center. He says to them — Is it permitted, on …
He goes to Kapernaoum again for a few days. They hear that he is in a house, and so many gather that there is no room, even in the door. He speaks to them the Idea. There is borne to him a paralyzed [person], carried by four. Unable to get to him through the crowd, …
The Origin of the Welcome Message of [the Divine] Yoshua, the Chosen One [As told to Yohanan Marcus] Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness —Prepare ye the way of the Master; make his paths straight. – Esias the …
The first portion of the Copperstone Bible, The Welcome News as told to Yohanan Marcus, otherwise known as the Gospel of Mark, is available in eBook form at: Amazon Apple iBooks Kobo Books Barnes & Noble Smashwords —To what, he says, shall we compare the kingdom of God, and by what analogy shall we illuminate it? Like …
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