Jesus’ Personal Identity Disclosure: An Exegetical Study of Mark 2:1-12

Abstract

Many people are concerned about the identity of Jesus. It is easy for many to accept his humanity. When it comes to his authority, there are sceptics with different justification. This controversy over the identity of Jesus was also evident he was on earth. Jesus used different approaches to reveal his personal identity. Jesus used the healing of the paralytic to settle the identity matter as found in Mark 2:1-13. This exegetical study therefore considered the pericope (Mark 2:1-13) bringing out the central theme of the passage which has to do with Jesus and self-identity.

Keywords: identity of Jesus, humanity, healing of paralytic, justification, authority, personal identity, exegetical study

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-16-05

Publication date:August 31^st 2020