I have been guilty of seeing the Gospel of Mark as the Reader’s Digest version of Matthew, but now I am very anxious to dig into it as I have also learned to view the actions of Jesus to be just as deep as His words. Tim Keller brings out in this interview how the other gospels focus much more on what Jesus taught, and Mark highlights what He did.
I also love how this author/pastor stands by the fact that you cannot reinvent Jesus Christ to fit your own ideas. Either you have the real one, or you don’t. His message here resonates well with my recent post, “One World, Under God.” Enjoy!
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Really enjoyed hearing Pastor Tim Keller. Thanks for sharing.
I think our English translations have clouded the passion of our Lord that Mark reveals. For example: in Kenneth Wuest’s “Word Studies in the Greek New Testament,” we see that our English translation of Mark 10:16 (“And He took them (the little children) up in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them…”) is exposited this way: “…He blessed them fervently, in no perfunctory way, but with emphasis, as those who were capable of a more unreserved benediction than their elders…The verb “blessed” is intensive in force, “blessed them fervently,” and imperfect in tense, “kept on blessing them.” Expositors mentions that he took them one by one into His arms and blessed them fervently.
So many similar characteristics of our passionate, loving Lord are brought out in Mark, it makes one feel starved to know Him more.
Thank you for this post!
That would explain so much! Tried to start it last night, and besides the fact that I was very tired, it seemed so choppy and I could not focus. It has been the gospel I have studied the least. But will prayerfully continue. 🙂 The gospels are each so unique..for a reason!
I will have to take another look at Mark. Thanks….