The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel According to St. Mark

The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel According to St. Mark

The opening of St. Mark's Gospel is energetic and full of character. St. Matthew traces for Jews the pedigree of their Messiah; St. Luke's worldwide sympathies linger with the maiden who bore Jesus, and the village of His boyhood; and St. John's theology proclaims the Divine origin of the Eternal Lord. But St. Mark trusts the public acts of the Mighty Worker to do for the reader what they did for those who first beheld His glory. How He came to earth can safely be left untold: what He was will appear by what He wrought. It is enough to record, with matchless vividness, the toils, the energy, the love and wrath, the defeat and triumph of the brief career which changed the world. It will prove itself to be the career of the Son of God. In so deciding, he followed the example of the Apostolic teaching. The first vacant place among the [pg 002] Twelve was filled by an eye-witness, competent to tell what Jesus did from the baptism of John to the day when He was received up, the very space covered by this Gospel. That Gospel of peace, which Cornelius heard from St. Peter (and hearing, received the Holy Ghost) was the same story of Jesus after the baptism which John preached. And this is throughout the substance of the primitive teaching. The Apostles act as men who believe that everything necessary to salvation is (implicit or explicit) in the history of those few crowded years. Therefore this is the gospel. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37120
Author: Chadwick, G. A. (George Alexander)
Release Date: Aug 18, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English