X2. BOWYER BIBLE PRINT 4076. JESUS CRUCIFIED. AFTER RUBENS
Mark records Jesus's words from the cross (15:22-37). Some people say, "What a holy man! Even to the very last he was quoting from the Scriptures, because this is in fact the first line of Psalm 22". Others say, "Jesus, being human, felt totally abandoned by God." But however we interpret them, we have preserved a very cruel joke by the bystanders: "He's calling on Elijah!" (who was supposed to appear before the Messiah came.) They say this because Jesus's words, "Eloi, Eloi," sound like "Eliyah, Eliyah". The whole story of Jesus's Passion hangs together. The orderliness of the account emphasises a theological point: these events had been planned by God as the culmination of the mission of "The Suffering Servant".
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Phillip Medhurst was born in Leicester, England in 1948. Educated at Alderman Newton’s Grammar School, he read English at Wadham College, Oxford. After graduation he trained for the Anglican ministry. On ordination he served in a South London parish while qualifying as a schoolteacher at Goldsmiths’ College. For over two decades he taught religious education in both state-funded and private schools. In 1982 his son was permanently disabled as result of a road traffic accident, and this caused Phillip to radically re-assess his religious beliefs – leading to his realisation as a Christian Gnostic. He is now retired and devotes his time entirely to expressing The Gnosis in writing and fine art. He is no longer affiliated to any of the churches of Christendom and lives alone in his homes in Bolton, England and Calais, France.
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The Gospel according to Mark 