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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.

R. H. Lightfoot (History and Interpretation in the Gospels [London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934] p. 141) makes a summarizing statement that may introduce the so-called Passion narrative. “The passion is the supreme act of the Messiah, and conversely the Messiahship of Jesus is the explanation of the passion.” The sentence just quoted holds together a cluster of ideas we can profitably explore in any proclamation of Jesus’ last days. One
Mark 14:1–72
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