authority. James and John are warned that they will, in fact, face sufferings on account of Jesus and will be associated with his fate (10:39; 14:36). But Mark’s portrayal of Jesus as progressively more isolated and then completely abandoned by the Twelve emphasizes that Jesus leaned on no one, and so was the unique pathfinder whom his disciples are to follow. Mark’s conflated account of the interrogation of Jesus and the questioning of Peter (14:53–72) presents Jesus as the only proper role model