Fairy Tale Spotlight: Mark [Book Review]

"Mark" is the forty-first book of the "Holy Bible," and it was written by John Mark, the same "Mark" mentioned in the title. It is almost a carbon copy of Matthew, but there are differences here and there. It is a bit shorter because some things, like the lineage of Jesus, were omitted. I'll mention some of the things that popped out at me in this one:

1. The high-and-mighty priests did not like some random guy going around and acting like he was better than they were. Heck, they didn't like some random guy being even equal to them. Jesus just showed up and started speaking to people as if he was one of them.

2. When the woman touched his robe, John Mark accounts that Jesus knew "that virtue had gone out of him," causing her to be healed. Virtue in this case is another way to explain energy, I imagine.

3. When they saw Jesus walking on the water, they didn't believe it was him because they... like... got over the fact that they had seen him perform miracles just before. People are stupid. There's no excuse for this.

4. Jesus out rightly attacks the pointless traditions of the Church for being things created and intended for men. They can often distract people from who God really is, because they are so caught up in them.

5. I have had an ongoing argument with my friend Shawn O'Toole about this: the whole idea that God can take someone up but then whack them later. Shawn may have been right though, because there is a part where Jesus words it in such a way that that may be the case. It's not 100% clear who he is talking about though. I never assume or interpret anything. It's got to be clear.

6. Jesus pretty much puts a full stop to divorce. It was a law of Moses, but Moses did it despite what God wanted. To be clear: IF YOU REMARRY YOU ARE GUILTY OF ADULTRY. "Matthew" makes a distinction on if there was treachery involved on behalf of one of the two parties. "Mark" does not.

God's perspective in this is made clear, that he made male and female himself. He's looking at you as you are. We're the ones distorting everything.

7. So if a woman marries many husbands in their life, who is she married to in the afterlife? The problem with this question is that it is still tied to earthly thinking. Jesus whacked it.

8. Jesus ridicules priests who put on airs. They tend to be the biggest hypocrites and will walk all over people they consider lower than they are.

9. A very simple thing Jesus advises which I doubt anyone is really doing these days: he simply says "Watch." Unfortunately smart phones were invented, so we'll all be looking downward if anything cool happens.

10. Moments before Jesus is taken away to be tried, there was a weird incident where a man only wearing a one piece cloth got a little too close to the action. A soldier grabbed him, he ditches the cloth, and runs away naked. People have tried to find meaning in this, but I honestly think it's the same as people getting a little too interested in things that don't involve them. It's like when people slow down to see what's happening at a traffic stop. John Mark noticed this and wrote it down. I personally find it amusing.

That's it. The book is very similar to "Matthew." I honestly recommend the latter more. It's a bit more filled out than this one. Either way, it's good to have it for correlation purposes.

This blog was written on January 14, 2022.

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