Section D
Step One:
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Hand out to each participant a copy of Mark's text from 10:31-16:8.
There is a paraphrased version of the literal translation for the Revised Standard Version (1988)
 Here.
Ask participants to read through the text fairly quickly.
There is more than
one A4 page here and they need to follow the first column for example, into the first column of the next page etc.
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Step Two:
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Ask participants to follow through with the idea presented in the Introduction to this Section D that suggests the
paragraphs could be patterned around responses made by people to Jesus. If they put a break line through
each paragraph so formed it would (hopefully) look like something like the paragraphing
Here.
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Step Three:
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Taking the "cue" of the first and last paragraphs see if there is some kind of "concentric circle" in the
paragraphing in this section. Such a circle can be seen in the pattern presented
Here
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Step Four:
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Actually the pattern is not as straight forward as the above step suggests, especially in relation to paragraph pair number
ten. These two paragraphs can themselves break into an (a) and a (b) that follow a sequential pattern. Thus
in the first part of the first paragraph the scribe asks a question and is told "love your neighbour". Parallel to this,
in the second paragraph "one betrays".
Then in the part (b) of the first paragraph "the crowd hears gladly".
In the part (b) the second paragraph "All fled."
Participants in the class may say the sequential pattern here is a break from an overall concentric pattern and so
disproves the existence of an overall pattern. But a closer look at parallels between
the (a) (a) and (b) (b) of the paragraphs shows a connection is being made between individual and corporate guilt.
Something to
think about.
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Step Five:
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If the class divides up the paragraph pairs they could, as with Sections A and B, look for parallels within
the pairs. Examples of some of the parallels can be seen in paragraph pairs four and five:
here
Then they could look for some key major point between them. There could be some differences with the
following summary but hopefully they roughly coincide. Have a look
here
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Step Six:
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You have now covered the outline of the gospel.
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