When a literary specialist looks at Mark's Gospel he can see an elegant chiastic structure in the narrative. A chiastic structure is a circular sequence in which an opening set of events is...
Mark's Gospel is a complex and well-structured narrative, demonstrating a command of the Greek language, although (perhaps intentionally) written in an ungrammatical style. The entire Gospel consists...
He didn't predict it, He knew. Jesus knew right away and he was prepared to die when he arrived to the place where he ended up dieing. Plus, he was ready when he arrived.