By situating Mark 7.4 within Jewish ritual purity traditions and the developing baptismal tradition of Jesus’s followers, this article contributes to discussions of Jesus’s and Mark’s location within Judaism.

This article argues that the narrative introduction in Mark 7.1–4 presents the discourses of 7.5–23 in reference to Jesus’s ability to purify people bodily from the inside out, a theme correlated in Mark to his identity as one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.

Following recent studies on Mark 7.1–23 w/in Second-Temple & Tannaitic concerns with ritual purity (Furstenberg, Williams, cf. Lev 11.43; Lev 17.15–16), this article considers Mark 7.4 in the context of Levitical purity regulations and early Jewish practices, with other refs to bapt in the Gospel.

Except for Mark 7.4, all other Markan references to baptism refer to the Spirit (1.8, 10–11), sharing in Jesus’s death (10.38–39), or the origin of John’s baptism in relation to Jesus’s authority (11.30).

nevertheless makes no direct judgment on the ritually purifying force of John’s baptism, or of the coming baptism Jesus inaugurates at the descent of the Spirit in Mark 1.10–11, cf. 1.8.

Abstract:Josephus interprets John the Baptist’s act of baptizing people at the Jordan river as a washing for purification of the body. The Gospel of Mark, contrasting John’s baptism in water with Jesus’s ability to baptize with the Spirit (Mark 1.8),

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