Why did Mark portray the disciples of Jesus as not understanding who he really was?

Mark frequently stressed that Jesus instructed witnesses to his miracles to keep his true identity a secret. The demons always seemed to know who he really was, but not his disciples. Dennis R MacDonald (The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark) recently argued that this was the result of Homeric influence, with Jesus a counterpart to Odysseus, who also had to keep his identity secret.

This is an interesting theory, but not yet widely accepted by scholars (assuming it ever will be). Another possible reason could be that Mark needed to show why few people had ever heard of Jesus at the time he wrote his Gospel, even though Mark described so many great wonders and miracles Jesus performed in the recent past.

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