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Mark wrote a Gospel that was at once plain and subtle, fast-paced and yet profound, and in it he clarified what it meant to follow Christ in turbulent times by differentiating the essential from the trivial. He sought to fortify the witness of persecuted early Christian groups and ground them in the hope of Jesus Christ. Kim Huat Tan’s New Covenant Commentary commentary on Mark unveils how the...

43:1, 5 etc.). We should also note that the expression ’anî hû’ occurs in the Isaianic passages that speak of God’s promise of deliverance through the waters of a second Exodus (Isa 43:1–25; 51:10–12). This motif is certainly relevant to Mark’s Gospel, which utilizes significantly the second Exodus concept. To be noted finally is that the expression is also related to the covenantal name of Yahweh. All this means that Jesus’ use of these words, especially in the context of his walking on water, is
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