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Who did he want to do it with?
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What kind of historical context do we imagine?
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First we see--immediately we see a bunch of problems with this text.
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There's first the problem
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one of the most famous problems of the Messianic secret.
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This is when over and over again in Mark,
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and it happens sometimes in the other Gospels,
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but it's--it happens more in Mark then a lot of other places.
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You get Jesus doing something,
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and then he tells somebody to be quiet about what he's just done.
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Look in 1:25, Mark 1:25, he's just cast
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he's confronted an unclean spirit.