The Gospel According to Mark, by Borges

I am halfway through reading the Gospel According to Mark (I am reading the whole of the New Testament in January and February).

It turns out “Mark’s gospel is unique in the fact that it portraits the disciples as ignorant, because they are unable to see Jesus’ true identity (White).”

Which I would have missed, almost certainly. And I know it via the usual “rabbit-hole” route – I spotted in the Mark wikipedia page that Borges had written a short story. So I read the short story – and you should too – it’s only five pages, and it’s got a nice moral about the dangers of, well, that would be spoiling, but arrogance, assumptions, etc etc. And in reading about the story I came across the essay I quoted above.

White, L. Michael. “From Jesus to Christ: The Gospel According to Mark” April 1998. Frontline.25 March 2018.

The transcript of that is here

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/etc/script1.html#:~:text=MICHAEL%20WHITE:%20We%20really%20need,Prof.