The West-Saxon Version of
The Gospel of Mark

 

 

The text is taken from:

Euangelium secundum Marcum: The Gospel of Saint Mark in West-Saxon. Bright, J.W. (ed.). The Belles-lettres series. Section 1. English literature. Boston/London: D.C. Heath & Co, 1905.

 

 

Transcribed by

Rich Rhodes

and

Mark Langley

 

 

This digital edition annotated and prepared by

Michel van der Hoek

 

Anoka, Minnesota

2006

 

 

 

Table of Contents

An Index of Scenes

 

 

¶ John the Baptist Prepares the Way. 1

¶ The Baptism of Jesus 2

¶ The Temptation of Jesus 2

¶ Jesus Calls His First Disciples 2

¶ A Man with an Unclean Spirit 2

¶ Jesus Heals Many. 2

¶ Jesus Preaches in Galilee. 2

¶ Jesus Cleanses a Leper 2

¶ Jesus Heals a Paralytic. 3

¶ Jesus Calls Levi 4

¶ A Question about Fasting. 4

¶ Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath. 4

¶ A Man with a Withered Hand. 4

¶ A Multitude Follows Jesus 5

¶ The Twelve. 5

¶ Blaspheming the Holy Spirit 5

¶ Jesus’ Mother and Brothers 5

¶ The Parable of the Sower 5

¶ The Purpose of Parables 6

¶ A Lamp under a Basket 6

¶ The Parables of the Growing Seed & the Mustard Seed  6

¶ The Calming of the Storm.. 6

¶ The Healing of a Demon-Possessed Man  6

¶ The Healing of a Woman and of Jairus’s Daughter  7

¶ Jesus Rejected at Nazareth. 7

¶ Jesus Sends Out the Apostles 8

¶ The Death of John the Baptist 8

¶ The Feeding of the Five Thousand. 8

¶ Jesus Walks on Water 8

¶ Healing the Sick in Gennesaret 8

¶ Traditions and Commandments 8

¶ What Defiles a Person. 9

¶ The Faith of the Syro-Phonenician Woman  9

¶ The Healing of a Deaf Man. 9

¶ The Feeding of the Four Thousand. 9

¶ The Pharisees Demand a Sign. 10

¶ The Healing of a Blind Man. 10

¶ Peter Confesses the Christ 10

¶ Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection  10

¶ The Transfiguration. 11

¶ A Boy with an Unclean Spirit 11

¶ Second Prediction of Jesus’s Death and Resurrection  11

¶ Disputes among the Disciples 11

¶ Divorce. 11

¶ Let the Children Come to Me. 12

¶ The Rich Young Man. 12

¶ Third Prediction of Jesus’s Death. 12

¶ The Request by James and John. 12

¶ The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus 12

¶ The Triumphal Entry. 12

¶ Jesus Curses the Fig Tree. 13

¶ The Cleansing of the Temple. 13

¶ The Withered Fig Tree. 13

¶ Jesus’s Authority Challenged. 13

¶ The Parable of the Tenants 13

¶ Paying Taxes to Caesar 14

¶ The Sadducees and the Resurrection  14

¶ The Great Commandment 14

¶ The Widow’s Offering. 14

¶ The Temple’s Destruction Foretold. 14

¶ Signs of the End of the Age. 15

¶ The Abomination of Desolation. 15

¶ The Coming of the Son of Man. 15

¶ The Plot to Kill Jesus 15

¶ Jesus Anointed at Bethany. 16

¶ Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus 16

¶ The Last Passover 16

¶ Institution of the Lord’s Supper