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Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

The most influential man to ever walk the earth has had his story told in hundreds of different ways for thousands of years. Can any more be said? Now Timothy Keller, New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and the man Newsweek called a “C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century,” unlocks new insights into the life of Jesus Christ as he explores how Jesus came as a king, but a...

Potter books. But it’s such a perfect encapsulation of the meaning of Jesus’s life that I couldn’t resist borrowing it for the original title of this book. You see, the Gospel of Mark has one more feature that makes it ideal for our purposes here. Mark’s account of Jesus’s life is presented to us in two symmetrical acts: his identity as King over all things (in Mark chapters 1–8), and his purpose in dying on the cross (in Mark chapters 9–16). This book’s structure is in two parts (“The King” and
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