In Mark, after Jesus’ transfiguration,[1] Jesus will tell the three disciples he has brought with him to the mountain, Peter, James, and John, “to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead.” Only Mark’s Jesus is a Jesus who does not know that his disciples did not understand what they had seen and heard on the mountain, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.” In Mark, these words will be spoken by the person we can call the first to believe in the Crucified, “the centurion, who stood facing [Jesus on the cross], saw that he thus breathed his last, [and] said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’ ”[2]
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