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The first full-length critical commentary on the Greek text of Mark to appear in English in a long time. Gundry says that Mark constitutes a straightforward defense of the apparently shameful manner of Jesus’ death, and as such Mark’s Gospel is essentially an evangelistic tract rather than an obliquely written handbook of Christian discipleship and church life.

in that Jesus does not reject them anti-ritualistically so much as he radicalizes them pro-morally. The lack of a characteristically Marcan καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς, “and he was saying to them,” at the head of vv 21–22 does not prove a pre-Marcan redactional attachment of these verses to the preceding unless it is first proved that these verses are a redactional attachment at all (and see the comments on 2:27 regarding that introductory clause). If according to the theory of original disunity Mark
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