An old sea captain said he could always gauge the size of a ship that had passed out of sight by the size of the wake it left behind. From the size of the wake left by Jesus, there can be no doubt that he was a great person. But what kind of person was and was he more than a great person, as his followers claimed? To help people answer such questions for themselves, Mark set out to record the story of Jesus.
From his opening line Mark quickly immerses us into Jesus’ story and moves us along at break neck speed so we can answer for ourselves the all important questions of “Who is Jesus?”, “Why did he die?”, and “What difference does it make?”
