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Where does Mark say he came?
“Came into the parts of Dalmanutha ([viii, 10]).
Criticising this statement, the “Bible for Learners” says: “Mark makes him journey still farther north, through the district of Sidon, and then turn southeast to the lake of Galilee, pass some way down its eastern shore apparently, and finally take ship and cross in a southwesterly direction to Dalmanutha, where we meet him once again. But the Evangelist’s geography is open to suspicion, and we are inclined to lay these apparently purposeless wanderings of Jesus to the account of Mark’s want of accuracy” (Vol. iii, p. 282).
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What did he say to the Pharisees who asked for a sign?
“There shall no sign be given unto this generation” ([Mark viii, 12]).
“There shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas” ([Matthew xvi, 4]).