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Here is a simple yet searching guide to the Gospel that does justice to the excitement of Mark’s message. Open Door on Mark is a clear and accessible introduction to Mark’s Gospel, nudging the door open for those with questions to ask. It conveys the key messages of Jesus’ ministry and their relevance today. It breaks the gospel down into manageable sections. Each chapter begins with the text, a...

was exposed as an empty sham. The Temple too had forgotten its original purpose. No longer was it a ‘house of prayer for all nations’ (Isa. 56:7); now it had become ‘a den of robbers’ (Jer. 7:11). Both these texts are found in v. 17. Mark is the only Evangelist to put these two texts together. He understood what the Temple should have been and recognized what it had become. Here he shows Jesus exposing the sham as did Jeremiah before him. This is a difficult passage for many of us. It reveals Jesus
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