Mark 7:34, and the death of Jesus in Mark 15:34 (1982). According to Sabin, the form Mark uses is similar to that of the midrashic homily, which is commonly used in Judaism to explain and illustrate a part of scripture, so that this gospel is not only biographical or moral, but also functions as a theological metaphor (1998). In addition, Crain asserts that before the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, around 70 CE, Christians and Jews co-existed, though there was some tension between the Torah as the full revelation of God and Jesus as the new revelation.รก After 70 CE, however, Christians began to go their own way, reinterpreting all of the existing scriptures in light of the new revelation (1999). Taken together, this shows that the church in Rome, the intended audience of the Gospel of Mark, was an established, mixed, Christian community of Jews and Gentiles perched on the cusp of a momentous time in history. It was the specific concerns and problems in this church that John Mark sought to address in his
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