The paper reads Mark 11:22–25(26) in the context of the narrative-movement towards Jesus’ end, and against apocalyptic expectation of the movement of the world towards God’s kingdom.
On the basis of Jesus’ programmatic statement in Mark 1:15 about the ‘fulfilment of time’ and the nearness of the Kingdom of God, the paper proposes that Jesus was proclaiming the fulfilment of the promise of time.
The paper addresses the question of Jesus’ eschatology in the Gospel of Mark via a close study of Mark 8:38.
The Markan Alphabet theory is a model which demonstrates how the Hebrew alphabet is utilized within the Gospel of Mark as a means of referencing, sequencing and exploring key themes and moments in the Gospel’s three major sequences.