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Understood today as the first written gospel, Mark seems to be the most direct and straightforward account of Jesus’ life. In his verse-by-verse commentary, Ralph P. Martin brings out the power of this eminently practical and persuasive Gospel. Martin emphasizes how Mark’s Gospel is a story of action—as encouraging and compelling today as when it was written.

Peter and others track down Jesus as he had sought a quiet place for prayer. Observe again the logic of James Stewart’s comment in The Life and Teaching of Jesus Christ (Nashville: Abingdon Press) p. 98: “the praying Christ is the supreme argument for prayer,” for it is his example of fellowship with God for which he found it needful to retire momentarily from life’s pressures that encourages us to do the same. Just as remarkable in a different way is the news, “Everyone
Mark 1:35–39
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