一百年前赖德提出弥赛亚秘密是《马可福音》的神学主题。他认为耶稣的弥赛亚称号不是历史耶稣自己的宣称而是早期教会信仰的产物。赖德的观点赢得了很多支持,也遇到同样多的反对。由于该学说并不能解读所有的马可经文,一直以来,学者从各自的角度对之进行修订和辩驳。本文运用社会科学批判的方法考察《马可福音》的经文,分析耶稣运动的行动策略和话语策略。从马可经文来看,耶稣及其群体医病赶鬼、宣扬天国福音主要是在乡村地区,而且他们常常遣散跟随的群众,退到荒野或者外族人地区。本文分析认为,他们如此做是出于安全的考量,避免与政治、宗教当局发生直接冲突;出于同样的考虑,耶稣以比喻讲解天国能使自己人更加明白,而使外人更加不明白它的含义。鉴此,本文对弥赛亚秘密这一老课题做出新的解读,以示耶稣为什么既隐藏又揭示他的弥赛亚身份;同时也从一个新的角度回答“耶稣为什么用比喻进行教导”这一常问常新的问题。
Messianic Secret, which was put forward by William Wrede one hundred years ago. concerns the theological theme of the Gospel of Mark. Wrede asserted that historical Jesus did not claim himself to be Messiah and it was the early churches that branded him with the title to meet the needs of the development. The proposal by Wrede has being approved as well as attacked by scholars since its being broached. Although Messianic Secret has some paraphrasing power thus considered classic, it is not able to cover all the theories or to comprehend all the texts of Mark. That is why scholars have been putting forward various explanations to modify or argue against it ever since then. This paper applies the social scientific approaches to study the Markan text, exploring the topic from the perspective of Jesus Movement by analyzing the strategy of its action and discourse. By analyzing the Markan text, we found that Jesus and his group preached, healed and exorcised mainly in the country and used to retreat to the wilderness or even Gentile regions, and often dismissed the masses that followed them. We conclude restrainedly that they did so for the sake of safety so as to avoid direct conflict with the political and religious authorities. For the same concern, Jesus preached the Kingdom of God in parables to keep the insiders knowing the true meaning and outsiders ignorant. Thus we present the new interpretation of Messianic Secret and answer the question why Jesus concealed as well as revealed his identity as Messiah and get the real meaning of the Kingdom of God which he had preached in parables.