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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