"he that was dead sat up" - The Gospel of Mark against Twelve Apostles

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The Gospel of Mark against Twelve Apostles

There is a very interesting but terrible paragraph in the Gospel of Mark.

Mar 8:33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

The context of this scene where Peter was rebuked by Christ Jesus is that He told His disciples how he would be betrayed and left by His disciples and killed eventually by "the elders, the chief priests, and scribes" but He would rise from His death in three days.  But Peter, having heard Christ Jesus speaking so openly, started to rebuke Him.  Then immediately, Christ Jesus called out, "Peter, you Satan!"  

The fact that such a terrible scenes was not erased but left in the Gospel is very meaningful.  According to a Japanese professor, it means that the Gospel of Mark was written to challenge authority of St. Peter and other 11 members of Twelve Apostles.

In Mark the disciples, and especially the Twelve, move from lack of perception of Jesus to rejection of the "way of suffering" to flight and denial – even the women who received the first proclamation of his resurrection can be seen as failures for not reporting the good news. There is much discussion of this theme among scholars. Some argue that the author of Mark was using the disciples to correct "erroneous" views in his own community concerning the reality of the suffering messiah, others that it is an attack on the Jerusalem branch of the church for resisting the extension of the gospel to the gentiles, or a mirror of the convert's usual experience of the initial enthusiasm followed by growing awareness of the necessity for suffering. It certainly reflects the strong theme in Mark of Jesus as the "suffering just one" portrayed in so many of the books of the Jewish scriptures, from Jeremiah to Job and the Psalms, but especially in the "Suffering Servant" passages Isaiah. It also reflects the Jewish scripture theme of God's love being met by infidelity and failure, only to be renewed by God. And in the real-world context in which the gospel was written, the persecutions of the Christians of Rome under Nero, the failure of the disciples and Jesus' denial by Peter himself would have been powerful symbols of faith, hope and reconciliation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark#Mark.27s_gospel_theology

So it looks natural that Protestants since Martin Luther (1483-1546) have claimed that believers should only refer to the Bible but should not trust blindly the Vatican.  Indeed in the Gospel of Mark, Christ Jesus called Peter Satan.

All four gospels tell a story in which Jesus' death and resurrection are the crucial redemptive events.[55] There are, however, important differences between the four:

- Unlike Matthew and Luke, Mark does not trace Jesus' ancestry back to King David, and there is no mention that he is the offspring of a virgin mother and a divine father

- Unlike John, Mark never calls Jesus "God", nor does he claim that Jesus existed as a divine being prior to his earthly life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark#Mark.27s_gospel_theology

Today most of scholars don't think that this Gospel was written by Mark who followed St. Peter.  If Mark had written this Gospel, it would have been an unforgivable act to depict Peter in such a manner.

In my theory, the Gospel of the Mark was written by Christ Jesus Himself who resurrected and continued to live secretly, helping Paul secretly and promoting diffusion of His teaching secretly.  As His Apostles and followers who survived the tragedy of His crucifixion to continue to live around Jerusalem did not preach and teach His teaching in a manner that satisfied Christ Jesus, He must have decided to present His version of the Bible.

If this theory should be proved, the Gospel of Mark will be renamed the Gospel of Jesus Himself.

In this case, the Vatican will be totally demoted if its religious merit is not totally forfeited.

...most scholars agree that Mark is the earliest gospel, most likely written in mid 60's A.D. Unlike Matthew and Luke, Mark does not contain many of the teachings of Jesus, such as the Sermon on the Mount; nor does Mark include the birth narrative of Jesus and post-resurrection appearances

http://rectorscorner.blogspot.jp/2011/02/introducing-marks-gospel.html 





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Luk 7:13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Luk 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
Luk 7:15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
Luk 7:16 And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.