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In this volume, respected New Testament scholar Robert Stein offers a substantive yet highly accessible commentary on the Gospel of Mark. The commentary focuses primarily on the Markan understanding of the Jesus traditions as reflected in this key New Testament book. The author analyzes each section in Mark to show how it fits the immediate and larger context of the Gospel. He offers...

its occurrences, if not all, appear to be editorial insertions of the evangelist into the tradition (1:1, 14–15; 8:35; 10:29; 13:10; 14:9). Mark is furthermore the only Gospel in which “gospel” is used “absolutely,” without qualification. In 1:1 the “gospel” is described as the gospel “of Jesus Christ.” Although this can be understood as a subjective genitive—“the gospel that Jesus Christ preached,” it is best interpreted as an objective genitive—“the gospel concerning/about Jesus Christ” (Guelich
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