is in some mysterious way divine. It is this concern with the person of Jesus that accounts for Mark’s emphasis upon Jesus’ conflict with demonic powers (also more emphasized in Mark than in the other Gospels). In Mark, Jesus actually brings the kingdom of God into the world troubled by evil powers and disrupts their hold over people, and this direct conflict shows him to be the divine Son who does God’s work of expelling the powers ranged against him. But not only is Mark a book about Jesus, it