Kata Markon

["George Mallory Patton" <gpatton AT bayou.com>]

I suggest that Mark intended for his reader to compare the cleansing of
the leper pericope (Mark 1:40-45) with the cleansing of the temple (Mark
11:12-26 plus 13:1&2).  The temple could have been cleaned just as the
leper was cleaned.  Was it?

Mark recorded the leper as saying, "If you want to, you can make me
clean." One might assume that Jesus also had the power to made the temple
clean.  If Jesus did clean the temple, why did the temple then need to be
destroyed?

I noticed that after Jesus cleansed the leper, he told the leper to "go
straight to the priest and let him examine you; then go offer the
sacrifice that Moses ordered, to prove to everyone that you are now
clean."

After Jesus cleaned  the temple, were there were some other things that
the temple needed, just as after the leper was cleansed he was required to
go the priest and make a sacrifice?

Any comments?

George M. Patton