Mark showed his readers the true humanity of Jesus and so does John.

Both writers may have been concerned with the problem of Docetism arising in the Church. John says that Jesus was thirsty and tired (4 :6-7), grieved and wept (11 :33-35), was deeply troubled (12:27), joined in the festivities of a wedding (2:2), was hungry (4:31). The statement of 1 :14 that the Word (of God) was incarnate, underlies John's understanding that Jesus was fully human. The fact of Jesus' death is made very clear in 19:31-35.

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