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R. Alan Cole offers commentary on the book of Mark, thought to be the first Gospel written and a source allegedly used by both Matthew and Luke in the writing of their Gospels. Cole discusses the probable identity of Mark, the priority of his Gospel, various historical and modern views of Mark, and much more.

4), the presence of Jesus brought peace and calm to the disciples. But their fear and their amazement alike are traced by the evangelist to their failure to learn the previous lesson of the feeding of the five thousand. Smallness of faith and hardness of heart are two constant sins even of the disciples in Mark. Hardness of heart is that lack of spiritual perceptivity, that lack of readiness to learn, for which we are ultimately blameworthy ourselves, and which, in the extreme case of the scribes,
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