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Mark’s Gospel is a book for today’s people in today’s world. It is vivid, appealing powerfully to the eye of the imagination. This is an age of new interest in the supernatural, with so many possibilities of deception. Here is Jesus, the True God and perfect Man, working the supernatural works of God. Today harrowing pictures of suffering bombards us all and we ask ‘Why?’ Here is God’s great...

It has been interestingly suggested that the word ‘beginning’ here is used for another reason, and that is that it echoes the first verse of the Bible. Here is Jesus, a whole new beginning to the story of this world. There can be no doubt that in the first verse of John’s Gospel Genesis 1:1 is in the mind of the author, for the verses that follow it concern the work of Jesus in creation. We cannot be quite so sure, however, about Mark’s intentions. Maybe he did have this in mind—it would have been
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