Theater 4: In Mark 1:42, the leper runs away from the sick person

as James and John run away from their father Zebedee in 1,20. One has the impression that Mark is thinking of a theater scene in which the sick person wears the old skin with the leprosy like an old dress.

In 1:42 another actor comes and takes away the old garment (the old skin) and underneath the new clean skin appears as a beautiful new garment

Theater 3: Lepers and healthy people do not meet

in real life, Leviticus 13:45, only on the theater stage do they meet. That a leper meets Jesus 1:40 is only possible in the theater. 

While the leper is allowed to approach Jesus with impunity, Jesus apparently does not feel the helplessness of the lame man, 2:4. The show interlude of lowering the sick man from the roof seems strange in real life.

With theatrical technology, even ancient, it was easily possible. For the spectators, it was a fun show that stuck in their memory and carried the message. That was what mattered to Mark.

Theater 2: In Matthew there is no longer a baptizing John

in the desert, but it is John with the epithet the Baptist who preaches in the desert.

Luke, the historically interested evangelist, mentions the desert only as the place of the divine instruction to John and has the Baptist preach at the Jordan right away

The desert in which John preaches in Mark is therefore not a real one, but a theatrical desert, the spiritual emptiness in the minds and hearts of the people to whom John preaches conversion, a new beginning.

2. Theater: The stories of Mark are not realistic,

but theatrical, theater within theater, play within play. In Mark 1:4, John stands baptizing (so literally in the Greek) in the desert.

But how is John to baptize if he has no water to wash away sins?

In 1:5, where the act of baptism is told, the ancient manuscripts already added the water, there it says: they were baptized in the Jordan.