Jesus, Tongues, and the Long Ending of Mark

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Menzies asserts that the author of the LE was influenced by Luke- Acts or underlying traditions and that this influence extends to Mark 16:17-18, which refers to speaking in tongues, and protection from snakes and deadly poison as signs that will mark the disciples of Jesus.
Luke not only describes speaking in tongues as a sign that is available to every believer, his use of “snakes and scorpions” as metaphors for satanic opposition (Lk 10:18-19, 11:11-13) shed valuable light on Jesus’ words in Mark 16:18. Additionally, Menzies maintains that Jesus’ words in Mark 16:18 draw upon Job 20:16. Against this OT backdrop these signs (Mk 16:18) signify that believers, as a general rule, will be protected from harm, especially persecution, as they engage in their mission. While the unrighteous person in Job’s narrative will “suck the venom of vipers” and be “killed by the tongue of a snake,” the followers of Jesus will be protected from these perils, which symbolize satanic opposition (Lk 10:18-19). This conclusion is supported by the order of the signs found in Mark 16:17-18. This order is influenced by the Stichwort connection between the believers’ “new tongues” and the following sign of “handling snakes,” which draws upon the “tongue of a snake” in Job 20:16. This Jewish hermeneutical method explains why the signs from Job 20:16, handling snakes and drinking poison, follow the reference to “new tongues” in Jesus’ list. The Jewish nature of this rhetorical device suggests that this saying (Mk 16:17-18) stems from Jesus himself.

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