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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...

many passages in the Epistle to the Hebrews. This sort of thing is not always easy to bring out in a natural fashion in English translation, but we could render verse 9 somewhat in this way: ‘And it happened at that time that there came Someone (that is, Jesus) from Nazareth of Galilee and he was baptized.…’ How astonishing and how unexpected! Why then was he baptized? We can see how fitting it was when we find Jesus saying that in this (as well as in all else he did, of course) he was to fulfil
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