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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.

With a new method of operation—Jesus began to preach in the open air as the door of the Jewish synagogue closed against him—there came a new style of public speaking. He taught the crowds in parables, we read (4:2). The parables of Jesus are a favorite seed plot for many a preacher’s sermons; but they are tricky! So often we resort to allegorizing the details or using the stories as pegs on which to hang ethical homilies. These aberrations are not new, and
Mark 4:1–34
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