The evangelists we know as Matthew and Luke are wonderful evangelists. Reading the evangelist we know as John brings the majesty of God to my soul. But I like reading and studying the first gospel, the one by the evangelist we call Mark. Almost always, his narrative moves quickly—Mark’s word is “immediately.” Matthew and Luke pick it up from Mark—fourteen times in Matthew, twelve in Luke, once in John—but thirty-four times in what by far is the shortest gospel, Mark.
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