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The Victory according to Mark: An Exposition of the Second Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

any could understand? One explanation those in the Reformed tradition might find attractive is that Jesus is implementing the doctrine of election. Many are called but few are chosen. That explanation won’t work in this case. The doctrine of election states that, apart from those whom the Lord chooses (elects) to change, all people will resist the gospel—not because they don’t understand it, but because they don’t like it. To think that Jesus needed to hide the truth in order to support the doctrine
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