The Gospel of Mark: The King is on the Move

Mark’s account of the life and ministry of Jesus is the shortest of the four gospels, each of which has its own voice and unique literary structure. One of the things about Mark is that it has a particular sense of haste in the story-telling (you’ll often see the word “immediately” connecting episodes), which is what inspired our subtitle and graphic for this series—The King is on the Move. But despite its brevity, it is packed full of little hints and references to the Old Testament, as well as the accounts of those who encounter Jesus, which manifest what Mark says in the very first verse: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus is the anointed savior, he is the true Son of God, and his coming is good news for a broken world. In this book we see how Jesus is not only at work in the Gospel, but is still living and active in the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our daily lives.