lie in the past. For writers like Mark and Paul, a case can be made that they have to some extent collapsed the time between past and present (though of course not entirely!). Thus for Mark, the gospel of Jesus and preached by Jesus (Mk 1:1; 1:14) is also the present gospel for which Christians suffer, which is so closely parallel to Jesus (Mk 8:35; 10:29) that there is almost a sense in which Jesus is present in the Gospel and the two come together. For Paul, the ‘day of salvation’ is the ‘now’