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Wilfrid J. Harrington explores his favorite gospel, the Gospel of Mark, with emphasis on why Mark tells the story the way he does. Harrington backs up his appreciation of the literary sophistication by outlining Mark’s technique. He demonstrates Mark’s storytelling and writing ability, and discusses the centrality of the cross to Mark’s account of Jesus. Mark’s theology is a theology of the...

Galilee” (14:28). That word is then caught up in the message of the “young man” at the tomb: “Go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you” (16:7). Throughout the Gospel “to see” Jesus means to have faith in him. What Mark is saying is that if the community is to “see” Jesus, now the Risen One, it must become involved in the mission to the world that “Galilee” signified. Galilee was the place of mission, the arena in which Jesus’ exorcisms
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