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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...

: Jesus charged the paralytic to perform an action of which health was the necessary condition (AMBROSE). One need not be paralyzed bodily, however, to be paralyzed inwardly (AUGUSTINE). The healing of body and soul occurs interconnectedly (CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA). The ministry of forgiveness is not the exercise of an independent power or right but points to God’s own saving work (AMBROSE). The administration of forgiveness, which according to the scribes is the office of God alone, acutely
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