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St. Mark’s Gospel is known as “the one that begins with a roar.”
The other gospels begin quietly: a genealogy, a tale of a barren woman and her husband, a sublime introduction to the Word…
Not so St. Mark. Instead, St. John the Baptist leaps out of the first paragraph, crying, “Prepare the way of the Lord! Come and seek baptism in repentance, that your sins may be forgiven!”
Immediately after John, Jesus Christ appears. St. Mark does not call Jesus the “Son of Man”; he immediately tells us that Jesus is the “Son of God.”
Continued below.
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The other gospels begin quietly: a genealogy, a tale of a barren woman and her husband, a sublime introduction to the Word…
Not so St. Mark. Instead, St. John the Baptist leaps out of the first paragraph, crying, “Prepare the way of the Lord! Come and seek baptism in repentance, that your sins may be forgiven!”
Immediately after John, Jesus Christ appears. St. Mark does not call Jesus the “Son of Man”; he immediately tells us that Jesus is the “Son of God.”
Continued below.
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St. Mark’s Gospel is known as “the one that begins with a roar.” The other gospels begin quietly: a genealogy, a tale of a barren woman and her husband, a sublime introduction to the Word… Not so St. Mark. Instead, St. John the Baptist leaps out of the first paragraph, crying, “Prepare the way...
