into the wilderness where he would be tested by the devil; that same Spirit empowers believers to engage the tester as Jesus did, both by signs and by suffering. In popular modern parlance, Mark might be called a charismatic posttribulationalist. Thus, while Mark is not as explicit as Luke-Acts, he is certainly more charismatic than Weeden allows (unless he is so inept as to leave precisely the contrary impression from the one he intended). Yet his charismatic exegesis of Jesus is not born of Hellenistic