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The Gospel of Mark is significant in many ways. Not only was it the first Gospel to be written and an important literary source for Matthew and Luke, but it is also best characterized as a witness document, a proclamation of salvation through Jesus Christ, which received its creative impulse from the early apostolic preaching. Mark bears witness to the word of revelation that Jesus is the...

(Ch. 8:33), and it was imperative for them to know what it means to follow Jesus. Precisely in following on the way to the cross the distinction between a privileged group and those outside (Ch. 4:11) disappears.101 “Following” in this context does not possess the technical meaning of “discipleship,” but refers to that common commitment to Jesus which distinguishes all Christians from those who fail to recognize him as God’s appointed Savior.102 Jesus stipulated that those who wish to follow him
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