Wind, Gag Yourself!
from A Strange and Beautiful Kingdom Hosted by David Parcher
Episode 8 Study Guide Some scholars claim Mark has the "lowest" view of Jesus' identity of the four Gospels. In this episode of A Strange and Beautiful Kingdom, David Parcher argues that Mark makes his case through narrative echoes instead of titles, and Mark 4:35–41 is a prime example. The storm story mirrors Jonah 1 almost beat for beat, with one big twist: Jesus doesn't need to be thrown overboard. Then there's the cushion. The Greek word proskephalaion appears only here in the New Testament, and only twice in the Greek Old Testament, both times in Ezekiel 13, where God condemns protective charms as snares. Jesus sleeps on the very thing Ezekiel calls bondage, and gets up unbound. Finally, the verb Jesus uses to silence the wind is the same one he uses on a demon, and the very next scene shows him freeing a man chains couldn't hold. For anyone interested in the Gospel of Mark, the calming of the storm, Jonah, Ezekiel, or how the New Testament uses the Hebrew Bible.
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