Mark 14:12-26
Tom Conry
tconry at hds.harvard.edu
Thu Feb 24 14:04:17 EST 2000
I'm writing a paper on Mark 14:12-26 for a seminar here, and I'm having a
tougher time than usual. The purpose of the paper is to examine the passage
for signs of ritual.
I've made a kind of working personal translation. Of course every
translation involves choices, and I just wanted to make mine explicit for
myself. One choice was to largely ignore good idiomatic smooth English in
order to stay closer to the underlying Greek grammar. This doesn't make for
a very good "translation" but it's helping me keep in mind (for the moment)
what's at stake for all the characters here.
I wonder if the group might be willing to take a look at what I've done
and make a critique? Then I have some more specific questions about the
significance of some of the Greek expressions that I'll raise in separate
messages.
Also: does anyone recall a discussion of this passage which I might find
in the archives? And is anyone aware of any grammatical points of interest
or land mines which I might have ignored?
Thank you.
Mark 14:12-26
And on the first day of the unleavened(s) (bread),
when they sacrificed the pasch,
his students/disciples/comrades said to him:
where do you wish us to go (we, departing) and prepare
in order that you eat the pasch?
And he sends two of his students/disciples/comrades
and he says to them:
make your way into the city
and someone will meet you
carrying an earthen water jar.
Follow him.
And wherever he enters,
say to the house-boss
that the teacher says:
where is my guest-room
where I may eat the pasch with the students/disciples/comrades?
And he will show to you a great upstairs-room,
furnished (spread out) and ready.
And there make preparations for us.
And the students/disciples/comrades went out
and came into the city
and found [the situation] just as he said to them
and they prepared the pasch.
And when it became evening
he came with the twelve.
And while they were reclining and eating,
Jesus said: on my word of word of honor I'm telling you,
that one of you will hand me over,
someone eating with me.
They began to be sorrowful
and to say to him one by one:
(it's) not me, is it?
But he said to them:
(it's) one of the twelve,
the one dipping with me into the bowl.
Because the son of man goes
just as it stands written about him,
but damned/shameless is (to) that man
through whom the son of man is being handed over:
better (good) for him if that man had not been born (been begotten).
And while they were eating, taking bread,
blessing (it),
he broke (it) and gave to them
and said: take, this is my body.
and taking a cup, having given thanks,
he gave (it) to them,
and all of them drank out of it.
And he said to them:
this is my blood of the covenant,
poured out for the sake of many.
On my word of honor I say to you
that I will definitely never drink from what comes from the vine
until that day
when I drink it anew
in G-d's imperial rule.
And singing hymns they went
to the Mount of Olives.
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