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Gospel of Mark: summary Mark’s gospel doesn’t mention anything about the virgin birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, or of Jesus’ supposed descent from David. Instead, after beginning his gospel by focusing on John the Baptist and his baptism of Jesus, as well as John’s acknowledgment of his role as forerunner to Jesus, Mark exclusively focuses ...
Catholic Commentary on the Gospel of Mark. Mary Healy expertly guides the reader through the depths of Mark’s Gospel, offering detailed explanations and comparisons of each chapter and verse.
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Mark clearly wants to identify Jesus’s prayer life—and hence his dependence on the Father—as a high priority in his life. 1:36–39 When Simon and the other disciples find Jesus, they report, “Everyone is looking for you.”
Mark is the Gospel of youth; it is so brief, so vivid, so stirring, so strong; and these same qualities adapt the story to the active, restless, vigorous spirit of the whole modern world.
The Adam Clarke’s Commentary gives the following summary of Mark’s Gospel: “Though the matter of Mark’s work came from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, yet the language seems to be entirely his own: it is very plain, simple, and unadorned; and
Mark is to guess at the circumstances of those first readers. The tradition places the book in Rome after the death of Peter, and so written in the aftermath of Nero’s persecutions. Within the book itself, chapter 13 suggests that the imagined audience may have been experiencing persecution.
