The Markan Jesus, however, is not just inseparable from the object of the Shema’s devotion; he also displays that devotion himself. Throughout the Gospel, indeed, Jesus demonstrates what it means to love God with one’s whole being—above all, in the concluding section of the narrative, where he sets his Father’s will above his own and submits himself to his God-willed death (14:36; cf. 10:45; 14:24). There is a natural connection between this sort of self-sacrifice and the Shema, as shown by the passage