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Mark’s concern in his Gospel is that his readers know the good news of who Jesus is: God’s Son and suffering Messiah. It is a book of action, demonstrating Jesus’s identity with a strong emphasis on what he did—acts of service and of power that often left onlookers amazed. Inherent in this revelation of Jesus’s identity is a call to radical discipleship fueled by total dependence on him. Renowned...

family (1:19–20). Many others would have their own families turn against them (13:12) and would lose everything (in this world). 10:30 in this present age … and in the age to come. Matthew 19:28–29 centers on the final reward “at the renewal of all things,” but Mark adds the present vindication and return, as there will be a hundredfold family provided, meaning the church. This is far greater than what was lost and is a foretaste of what will be given eternally. The “eternal life” that will be theirs
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