The Meaning of Jesus' Identity and Mission in Mark 8:31-38: A Reflection for God's People

Marthin Steven Lumingkewas; Bobby Kurnia Putrawan; Susanti Embong Bulan

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The Meaning of Jesus' Identity and Mission in Mark 831-38 A Reflection for God's People

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This article aims to find the meaning of Jesus' identity and mission in Mark 8:31-38 which is reflected in the lives of God's people today. The method used is through the reading of Mark's narrative theology. According to Mark, the kingdom of God is the only kingdom where peace and justice are abundantly available to all, because the identity and work of Jesus is the true Son of God, and not Caesar. Becoming a part of this kingdom requires imposing what is the identity and mission of Jesus into the readers of Mark's text. Thus, it is reflected and applied to God's people today. The results of this study show that the identity and mission of Jesus is the duty and responsibility of God's people as the son of man to dare to suffer, be rejected, and be killed, for doing the work of the Father, and be resurrected after death.

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Lumingkewas, M. S., Putrawan, B. K., & Bulan, S. E. (2021). The Meaning of Jesus’ Identity and Mission in Mark 8:31-38: A Reflection for God’s People. Millah: Journal of Religious Studies, 21(1), 253–274. https://doi.org/10.20885/millah.vol21.iss1.art9

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Akin, Daniel L, David Platt, and Tony Merida. Exalting Jesus in Mark. Nashville, Tennessee: Holman Reference, 2014.

Allen, Ronald J. “Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: Mark 8:27-38.” Currents in Theology and Mission 44, no. 4 (2017): 31–36. https://currentsjournal.org/index.php/currents/article/view/88.

Arnold, Maik. “Missionary Self-Perception and Meaning-Making in Cross-Cultural Mission: A Cultural Psychological Analysis of the Narrative Identity of German Protestants.” Transformation 32, no. 4 (2015): 240–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378814558446.

Bayer, Hans F. A Theology of Mark: The Dynamic between Christology and Authentic Discipleship. Explorations in Biblical Theology. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 2012.

Beavis, Mary Ann. Mark. Paideia : Commentaries on the New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2011.

Borg, Marcus J. Meeting Jesus in Mark: Conversations with Scripture. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Publishing, 2011.

Breed, Gert. “Diakonia: In Conversation with John N. Collins.” Ecclesiology 13, no. 3 (2017): 349–68. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-01303005.

Cockerill, Gareth L. “The Invitation-Structure and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark.” The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies 3, no. 1 (2016): 28–43. https://place.asburyseminary.edu/jibs/vol3/iss1/4.

Comstock, Gary L. “Two Types of Narrative Theology.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion LV, no. 4 (1987): 687–717. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LV.4.687.

Dowd, Sharyn Echols. Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Second Gospel. Macon, Georgia: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 2000.

East, Brad. “An Undefensive Presence: The Mission and Identity of the Church in Kathryn Tanner and John Howard Yoder.” Scottish Journal of Theology 68, no. 3 (2015): 327–44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930615000137.

Eck, Ernest van. “Mission, Identity and Ethics in Mark: Jesus, the Patron for Outsiders.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 69, no. 1 (2013): Art. #2003. https://doi.org/10.4102/ hts.v69i1.2003.

Fackre, Gabriel. “Narrative Theology: An Overview.” Interpretation 37, no. 4 (1983): 340–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/002096438303700402.

Fee, Gordon D., and Douglas K. Stuart. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. Fourth edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2014.

Garrett, Susan R. The Temptations of Jesus in Mark’s Gospel. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998.

Harrell Jr., David Edwin. All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/45766.

Healy, Mary, and Peter S. Williamson. The Gospel of Mark. Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008.

Hollander, William den. “Jesus, Josephus, and the Fall of Jerusalem: On Doing History with Scripture.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 71, no. 1 (2015): a2942. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i1.2942.

Huyssteen, Wentzel van. “Narrative Theology: An Adequate Paradigm for Theological Reflection?” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 45, no. 4 (1989): 767–77. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v45i4.2327.

John Q. Doe. “Peter’s Confession at Caesarea Philippi: An Exegesis of Mark 8:27–38.” University of Southern Mississippi, 2016. https://drkoine.com/pdf/home/NOBTSPapersT8.pdf.

Johnson, David R. “The Mark of the Beast, Reception History, and Early Pentecostal Literature.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 25, no. 2 (2016): 184–202. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455251-02502003.

Koo, Hyunwoo. “Missionaries and Colonialism: The Nineteenth Century British and Contemporary Korean Missionaries in Zambia.” Mahabbah: Journal of Religion and Education 1, no. 2 (2020): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.47135/mahabbah.v1i1.2.

Leim, Joshua E. “In the Glory of His Father: Intertextuality and the Apocalyptic Son of Man in the Gospel of Mark.” Journal of Theological Interpretation 7, no. 2 (2013): 213–32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26421567.

Lincoln, Andrew T. The Gospel According to Saint John. Black’s New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013.

Lull, David J. “Reading the Gospel of Mark within Three Horizons.” Currents in Theology and Mission 44, no. 4 (2017): 4–6. https://currentsjournal.org/index.php/currents/article/view/83.

MacDonald, Deven K., and Ernest van Eck. “Witnesses to the Truth: Mark’s Point of View.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 72, no. 1 (2016): a3350. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i1.3350.

Moloney, Francis J. “‘Constructing Jesus’ and the Son of Man.” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 75, no. 4 (2013): 719–38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43728295.

Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002.

Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Jerusalem: The Biography. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2012. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307280503.

Mwikamba, Constantine, and Stephen Akaranga Ifedha. “Blessed Are the Rich and Prosperous For Theirs Is the Kingdom of the World: The Kenyan Challenge.” Research on Humanities and Social Sciences 5, no. 14 (2015): 138–42. https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/view/24555.

Ongong’a, Jude J., and Stephen I. Akaranga. “Prosperity Gospel in Kenyan Urban Centres: Come, See, Pay and Receive Your Miracles and Healing.” Research on Humanities and Social Sciences 5, no. 10 (2015): 199–208. https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/view/22896.

Putrawan, Bobby Kurnia. “Pengantar Teologi Pentakosta (Introduction to Pentecostal Theology).” Quaerens: Journal of Theology and Christianity Studies 1, no. 1 (2019): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.46362/quaerens.v1i1.2.

Ricœur, Paul. Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.

Schirrmacher, Thomas. “Suffering and Prosperity: Equal Challenges to Faith.” Lausanne Movement, August 2, 2010. https://lausanne.org/content/suffering-and-prosperity-equal-challenges-to-faith.

Thornburg, Annette. “Narrative’s Revelatory Power: Toward an Understanding of Narrative Theology.” Denison Journal of Religion 5, no. 1 (2017): Article 3. https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/religion/vol5/iss1/3.

Wahyuni, Sri, and Susanti Embong Bulan. “Membaca Lukas 12:10 Dan Makna Teologi Menghujat Roh Kudus (Reading Luke 12:10 and the Theology Meaning of Blasphemes Against the Holy Spirit).” Quaerens: Journal of Theology and Christianity Studies 2, no. 1 (2020): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.46362/quaerens.v2i1.1.

Witherington, Ben. The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001.

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