This book takes a close look at the in the Gospel of Mark and how it relates to different motifs in the narrative. Jesus’ seeing the condition of the crowd and his and the crowd in the wilderness, allude to the shepherding activities of Yahweh in the Old Testament. The motif of continues, when Jesus extends his care towards the Gentile woman and later to a crowd in a Gentile region. Interestingly, the motif of «way» introduced in the prologue merges with the in the epilogue of the narrative, when Jesus leads his disciples, the «scattered sheep», to Galilee.weiterlesen