personally.8 Bauckham’s volume demonstrates that, indeed, Mark mentions Peter proportionately more than any of the other Gospels. If you go through the book of Mark, you’ll see that nothing happens in which Peter is not present. The entire Gospel of Mark, then, is almost certainly the eyewitness testimony of Peter. There is another reason to base our life of Jesus on the Gospel of Mark. Mark does not read like a dry history. It is written in the present tense, often using words like “immediately”