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New Testament II: Mark (Revised) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The early church valued the Gospel of Mark for its preservation of the apostolic voice and gospel narrative of Peter. Yet the early church fathers very rarely produced sustained commentary on Mark. This brisk-paced and robust little Gospel, so much enjoyed by modern readers, was overshadowed in the minds of the fathers by the magisterial Gospels of Matthew and John. But now with the assistance...

prayer and fasting and is followed by earnest perseverance (BEDE). The dynamics of temptation proceed first by suggestion, then by taking delight in the suggestion, then by consent (GREGORY THE GREAT).