Parallels Between Secret Mark, Mark and the LXX

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And after six days Jesus told him what to do, and in the evening the youth comes to him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God. And thence, arising, he returned to the other side of the Jordan (τὸ πέραν τοῦ ιορδάνου). [to Theod. 3.6,7]

Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and shall help them; until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as unto you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them; then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan toward the rising (εἰς τὸ πέραν τοῦ ιορδάνου ἀπ' ἀνατολῶν ἡλίου) [Joshua 1.14,15]
They went across the sea (εἰς τὸ πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης) to the region of the Gerasenes. [Mark 5:1]

Who will cross the sea (εἰς τὸ πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης) to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it? [Deuteronomy 30:11 - 18 LXX]

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