Questioning the Questions around Jesus’s Authority in Mark 11:27–33: A Performance Perspective

The rise of performance criticism prompts questions about its relationship to other disciplines, most notably narrative criticism. While critics traditionally focus solely on the textual elements within their cultural context, adopt a broader understanding term “text”, encompassing not only context but also performative aspects, such as setting for public reading, involvement skilled performer, and dynamics introduced by diverse audience. This article demonstrates distinctiveness performance-critical approach through reappraisal Mark 11:27–33, showing how an yields different interpretive results when compared traditional More specifically, whereas readings generally conclude that Jesus is merely evading his interlocutors, I argue suggests many ancient listeners would have concluded lector-as-Jesus was insinuating, those with ears hear, Jesus’s authority derives from God granted at baptism.