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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...

understanding of Jesus Christ) and discipleship. Jesus is the Son of God. He is the Son of Man—the one come to serve, the one faithful unto death. A person who has come to terms with the cross (with the meaning of Jesus’ death) can know him and confess him—like the Roman centurion (see Mark 15:39). His disciples did not understand him before Calvary. The Christian reader of the first century and of today is being challenged to come to terms with the love of God shown forth in the cross of Christ.
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