Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction
Author's Preface
Introduction

Part One: Mark
1. Some Preliminaries on the General Picture of the Messianic History of Jesus
2. The Self-Concealment of the Messiah
3. Concealment Despite Revelation
4. Mark in Retrospect

Part Two: The Later Gospels
5. Matthew and Luke
6. John

Part Three: Historical Elucidation
7. The Concealment of the Messiahship up to the Resurrection
8. The Disciples' Lack of Understanding
9. More on Mark and Luke
10. On the Further History of the Ideas

Appendices
i. On the Confession of Peter
ii. The Prohibitions of Jesus
iii. The Idea of Education in Mark
iv. On the Prophecies of Suffering and Resurrection
v. On the Text of Mark 10.32
vi. On Mark 10.47
vii. Predecessors

About the Author

William Wrede was born in 1859 at Bucken in Hanover. He became an associate professor at Breslau in 1893, and full professor in 1896. He died in office in 1906. Dr J.C.G. Greig was sometime Professor of New Testament at Westminster College, Cambridge, and lecturer on Religious Education at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow.