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.

central identity issue in the late 2TP. It was a live issue for Jesus and the other holiness movements of his day. Read against this backdrop, Mark’s perspective can be seen more clearly. He makes a contribution to the NT picture that needs to be heard. Mark shares the biblical premise that God alone is holy in essence and that he has called a holy people as “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exod 19:6; see 1 Pet 2:9). All human holiness is a derived holiness. It depends on responding to the

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