마가복음이 암시하고 있는 제자들의 회복에 대한 이해

Abstract

Although in Mark 16:8 the women have failed to carry out their commands, which are to tell the disciples the message of the resurrection and the promise, the readers know that the risen Christ will indeed lead the disciples in Galilee. As the momentum of the promise-fulfillment scheme builds through the narrative, it impels the reader over Mark 16:8 of the Gospel, in which the women flee from the tomb and “say nothing to anyone.” As the readers experience the confirmation of many various predictions of Jesus in the narrative itself, it gains confidence that those predictions of Jesus that reach beyond the plotted narrative are reliable as well. Several passages in Mark hint that the disciples who denied Jesus and fled from him at his arrest would return to see Jesus and follow him in the year after his resurrection. The first passage to foreshadow the restoration of the disciples is Jesus' promise to Simon and Andrew that he would make them “fishers of men”(Mk. 1:17). A second relevant passage is Mark 10:39. Jesus foretells that James and John will follow him in the pattern of his death(Mk. 10:35-40) and that at a future time the disciples will serve as his messengers to preach the gospel(cf. Mk. 1:1, 15) and will be perse- cuted on account of him(Mk. 13:9-13). Jesus predicts that although the disciples have failed to watch in Gethsemane(Mk. 14:32-41), they will be handed over to councils as Jesus was(Mk. 13:9) because they preach his gospel. The prediction anticipates their future faithfulness beyond their immediate cowardice narrated in chapters 14-15. The third passage that anticipates the reconciliation of Jesus and the disciples is Mark 14:27-28: After I have been raised, “I will go before you to Galilee.” The prediction that the disciples will abandon Jesus is balanced by the promise of meeting in Galilee after the resurrection. This meeting can remove their unbelief and restore their functions as fishers of men in spite of their desertion and denial. A fourth passage that foreshadows the restoration of the disciples is Mark 16:7. In this verse a young man announces a plan for Jesus to regroup with the disciples in Galilee after his resurrection. The meeting for restoration promised in Mark 14:28 is reconfirmed in Mark 16:7. This promise encourages the reader to anticipate a restoration of the disciples after the resurrection Mark uses the disciples' spiritual blindness to shock the readers into realizing that they, as Jesus' disciples, must not fall into spiritual ignorance, but must follow Jesus with spiritual perception regarding his divine messiahship. On the other hand, the restoration of the failed disciples comforts and encourages Mark's reader who failed to understand Jesus and to believe in him under persecution.