Christian Origins and the New Testament in Greco-Roman Context: Essays in Honor of Dennis R. MacDonald (Claremont Studies in New Testament & Christian Origins Book 1) by Gregory Riley & Marvin Sweeney & Richard Pervo & John Kloppenborg & Matthew Hauge

Author:Gregory Riley & Marvin Sweeney & Richard Pervo & John Kloppenborg & Matthew Hauge [Riley, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Claremont Press
Published: 2017-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Mark 15:27—Isaiah 53:12

This verse from Isaiah is more properly an antetext to verse 28, “And the scripture was fulfilled that says, ‘And he was counted with the lawless,’” which is lacking in the earliest manuscripts and is likely a harmonization with Luke 22:37. Bultmann does “not presume to say” whether verse 27 exhibits the influence of Isaiah.[210] The connection is weak without 28 and requires a fairly literal reading of ἐν τοῖς ἀνόμοις that the prophetic text does not support. Collins remarks that 27 “seems to evoke” the Isaiah passage, but her reasoning is unconvincing.[211] She lists several places in the Gospel where Jesus either interacts with or is compared to criminals, but with no direct citation to Isaiah there is nothing quite distinctive enough to be sure of a link. By the evidence of Luke and verse 28 we know that the connection between the two passages developed early in Christian tradition, and it is not impossible that the author had the LXX text in mind, but if he did he left no definite clue. I speculate whether modern commentators would have thought of the connection had Luke not.

The more obvious precursor to this passage is within the Gospel itself: in Mark 10:35–40 James and John ask to sit on Jesus’s right and left hands in his glory. His response looks back to the passion prediction of 10:32–34: to sit on his right and left means to suffer. Later copyists, uncomfortable with the open-ended οἷς ἡτοίμασται, and who perhaps missed the imagery of 15:27, added ὑπὸ του πάτρος to 10:40, but the original reading gives no reason why the more immediate agent could not have been Pilate. Collins and Marcus both recognize this parallel;[212] Marcus suggests that the image in both cases is one of a royal retinue or bodyguard.

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