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This section of Mark ends with verses 11:25–26 which are paralleled in Matthew 6:14–15 and Luke 6:37,11:4 which some have seen as a portion or a follow-on of the Lord's Prayer (see also Discourse on ostentation#Prayer): forgive others so that God may forgive you.
This teaching is interpreted from Mark 11:22–23. [21] A more recent variant of positive confession is "decree and declare". [22] Word of Faith preachers have called faith a "force". [23] Conversely, "negative confession" is believed to be harmful, and so it is taught that believers should be conscious of their words.
The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. [13] There are 27 direct quotations in the Gospel of Mark, 54 in Matthew, 24 in Luke, and 14 in John, and the influence of the scriptures is vastly increased when allusions and echoes are included, [14] with half of Mark's gospel being made up of allusions to and citations of the scriptures. [15]
Mark is the only gospel with the combination of verses in Mark 4:24–25: the other gospels split them up, Mark 4:24 being found in Luke 6:38 and Matthew 7:2, Mark 4:25 in Matthew 13:12 and Matthew 25:29, Luke 8:18 and Luke 19:26. The Parable of the Growing Seed. [98] Only Mark counts the possessed swine; there are about two thousand. [99]
After healing people in the evening (Mark 1:35) Before walking on water (Matt 14:23, Mark 6:46, John 6:15) Before choosing the Twelve (Luke 6:12) Before Peter's confession (Luke 9:18) At the Transfiguration (Luke 9:29) Before teaching his disciples the Lord's Prayer (Luke 11:1) Jesus says that he has prayed for Peter's faith (Luke 22:32)
Lengthy passages of the New Testament are prayers or canticles (see also the Book of Odes), such as the prayer for forgiveness (Mark 11:25–26), the Lord's Prayer, the Magnificat (Luke 1:46–55), the Benedictus (Luke 1:68–79), Jesus' prayer to the one true God , exclamations such as, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ...
Either on Twelfth Night (5 January), the twelfth day of Christmastide and eve of the feast of the Epiphany, or on Epiphany Day (6 January) itself, many Christians (including Anglicans, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians and Roman Catholics, among others) write on their doors or lintels with chalk in a pattern such as "20 C M B 25".
The stylistic differences suggest that none of these was written by the author of the Gospel of St. Mark. Metzger speaks of the "inconcinnities" between the first 8 verses of chapter 16 and the longer ending, and suggests, "all these features indicate that the section was added by someone who knew a form of Mark that ended abruptly with verse 8 ...