reader how he perceives his narrative. It is “the gospel.” But why does he put the “gospel” comprised of numerous traditional units in writing? Unfortunately, we are left to reading between the lines for the answer. Perhaps the more traditional answer for why Mark wrote the Gospel has to do with the concern to preserve the tradition. Assuming that the first generation eyewitnesses and guarantors of the tradition were either dying out or being killed, the evangelist would have put the “gospel” in