Mark — Book Overview
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The Gospel of Mark is a gospel in a hurry. He grabs you by the collar and gets right to the point. The first word, arche, is the same first word of Genesis. This is a new beginning, a new creation, and there is no time to waste. We live in an age that is desperately confused about what is important. Our culture is obsessed with celebrity, with influence, with platform, with the kind of self-important swagger that gets you noticed. We measure a man's worth by his followers, his bank account, or his political clout. We live in an age that is deeply uncomfortable with loose ends. We want our stories to conclude with a neat bow, all questions answered, all characters accounted for. Our Bibles are littered with footnotes about the ending of Mark, telling us that the oldest manuscripts stop at verse 8, with the women fleeing the tomb in terrified silence.
This overview explores the whole book. Read the explanations sampled in this summary: