(September 4, 2012 at 8:50 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:(September 4, 2012 at 8:13 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Mark 11
Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 He said to it, 'May no one ever eat fruit from you again.
And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple
"My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations"?
But you have made it a den of robbers.'
they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.
Hosea 9
when I saw your fathers, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.
Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house
Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit.
@ Lion
Sorry, but it seems like one of your examples isn't genuine history. Mark loves his allegories and clearly we see here that he was alluding to Hosea 9.
Since when are fig trees mythical? People living in Jesus' time would have seen them everywhere. Quoting Hosea to me is interesting and nice and thanks. But I dont accept that the appearence of the word fig in the OT somehow means they cant mention it in the New Testament.
I understand the point you are trying to make. But I dont accept it
There's too many parallels for the two chunks to not be related. As I've said, either the characters in the NT carried OTs and used them as a script OR Mark used the OT as the basis for his work.
I know they live in a hellenized world where theatre is most likely very popular, but I doubt the NT was a life-sized play that was scripted. That would almost make it the first episode of Punk'd ever!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle