Morton Smith had a lot of theories, not just the Secret Mark. He outlined the gospel of John showing how he thought John was also a synoptic. He speculates that there were three earlier versions of Mark before our version. He shows that the Roman’s were violently suppressing satanic cults that ate corpses as one of their rituals and thinks this gave Jesus the idea for the Eucharist. He says only the Roman religion and Judaism were permitted, and any rituals outside these religions were suspected as being satanic. The Roman’s suspected the the eucharist to be eating corpses and tortured Chistians to death in their questioning procedures. They considered the final statement before death to be the truth. The point is that our Mark is a lite Mark, all of the rituals are removed, except five, baptism, the eucharist,  the lord’s prayer, laying on hands to cure, and curing the blind person with spittle, and replaced with instant miracles, commanding spirits to leave and telling corpses to rise, etc. Other apocalyptic preachers usually wrote their own bibles, did the same miracles and included the appropriate rituals. 

A second contention is that the virgin birth was invented to cover up that Jesus was born from Mary and another man, possibly Pantera. Jesus calls his mother `Woman!’ at the marriage at Cana in John 2:4 ‘, which Smith thinks means whore, and he says `what have I to do with thee’. In Mark 3:21 Jesus  brothers try to take him to an insane asylum, or I dont know what they had back then. When his mother and brothers come to see him, Jesus says in Mark 4:34 ‘who is my mother and my brothers?’ Out of wedlock was a major stigma then, and Mary’s transgression would have been common knowledge. Jesus had animosity issues with his family. 

A joke from Osho: A woman brings her daughter to the doctor and says, My daughter is pregnant yet she has not had sex. How can this be? The doctor says nothing, walks across the room and looks out the window. The woman says Doctor why dont you speak? The doctor says The last time this happened a star appeared in the East!

A verse in Mark 11:11-12 says `they went into bethany. They came out of bethany.’  What happened in Bethany? Smith thinks this is the story of Lazarus,  alluded to in Mark, showing a synoptic link between Mark and John. Something important must have happened in Bethany, or Mark wouldn’t  have included it. Also recorded in Mt 21:17.

John the Baptist, was also an apocalyptic preacher, had his own disciples, was an ascetic, eating locusts and honey and scantily clothed with a loincloth. In contrast, Jesus `came eating and drinking,’ a winebibber. Mt 11:19. The Babtist fasts and does not drink wine, Jesus doesn’t fast and is a wine drinker, Lk 7:33-34 and Mt 9:14. Apocalyptic preachers stereotypicly were thought to be loose sexually, often with a boyfriend in tow. Two accounts of raising from the dead from the Prophets, portray the Prophet lying naked on the dead body. If Secret Mark is bona fides, although most think it is not, we dont know for sure, it says that Lazarus loved jesus, and they spent a few days together. John mentions that Jesus loved Lazarus before he was raised John 11: 3. We can also read about raising the dead rituals in bibles written by other apocalyptic preachers which often involve nudity and fasting. Coming back from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. The point is that raising the dead rituals seemed to involve sex.

Two times in John the disciple who Jesus loved rests his head on Jesus chest John 13:23 and 21:20. The disciple Jesus loved is mentioned six times in John.

Why did Judas kiss Jesus, the most famous kiss in history. This was a display. For what purpose? Was Judas jealous of favorite disciples. Judas would have known that his kiss would be famous.