Through the poetics of allusion
“If it is misleading, or careless of the mystery, to state flatly, “Jesus is the God of Israel”--just as it is not permitted to speak the ineffable name God figured in the Tetragrammation—there is still a way of narrating who Jesus is by telling stories which he has the authority to forgive sins, to still storms, to walk on the sea, to feed the scattered sheep as the true shepherd, to make the deaf to hear and the mute to speak. There is a way to narrate who Jesus is by identifying John the Baptist as the voice in the wilderness who will proclaim Isaiah's gospel message of the end of the exile by crying, “Prepare the way of the Kyrios.” Through the poetics of allusion, Mark gestures toward the astounding truth. Those who have ears to hear will hear.”
Richard B. Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness









