(March 1, 2015 at 2:53 pm)Nestor Wrote: Maybe, maybe not. I don't think it's conclusive and nothing requires Mark's prediction to be unusual if everyone under the sun could see the Jews starting a war they couldn't win. We all know how Jewish prophets love to spell their own cities' utter and divine destruction when the people reject them. I think Josephus even includes an antidote about a different weeping Jesus who calls upon Jerusalem to repent or be destroyed before the sacking of the city, so these apocalyptic type moralists were probably not all that uncommon.
You're right. It isn't conclusive; I overshot the mark on that one. If Jesus did actually prophesy the Temple's destruction, it wouldn't have taken the greatest degree of prescience to see where rebellion against the empire would lead and certainly less so on the part of the Gospel of Mark's writer if it was, in fact, written in the mid-60s. Thanks for the reality check.
