Mark: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition (Biblia.com)

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If we only had Mark, we would know very little of Jesus’ life before he began a short one-year ministry. Mark tells us nothing about Jesus’ birth or early life. Mark begins his Jesus story with the announcement by a prophetic figure in the wilderness, John the Baptizer.

how Luke and Matthew agree with each other in many places. But the problems with the hypothesis are numerous enough to lead an increasing number of scholars to question it (see Goodacre 2002; for a defense of Q, see Kloppenborg 1987). Mark’s theological purpose is primarily to reveal the identity and meaning of Jesus as Messiah, Son of God. He does this by telling Jesus’ story as an overlay of the story of Israel that, in turn, gets its meaning from the

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