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Mark’s Gospel is sometimes assumed to be the least interesting or helpful gospel—it is the shortest and speaks in a plain and direct style. Mark Horne helps us better appreciate this Gospel’s goals by highlighting features not immediately apparent to the modern eye. Horne uses its Old Testament and first-century context to point out the typological roles that Jesus, John, and the disciples...

To be the Son of God is to be Israel’s king. Thus, in John’s Gospel we see the two titles put side by side: “Nathanael answered Him, ‘Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel’ ” (Jn. 1:49). Mark’s Gospel gives us the same idea. There are some manuscripts which are missing the reference to “son of God,” but whatever the original reading of Mark, the idea is still quite present: This is the story of the victory of Jesus, the king of Israel. THE BEGINNING Since we have analyzed every
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