Jesus, the Son and the Servant | Mark Series #1

“Now after the death of these [Peter and Paul], Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, himself also transmitted to us in writing the things preached by Peter.”—Irenaeus (ca. 140-203)“The busy worker pictured in this Gospel was the mighty Servant of Jehovah who, as the Son of God, revealed His power over the visible and the invisible world. . . . Mark’s purpose was not merely to tell the story of a great religious teacher but to proclaim the coming of Jesus Christ as the saving event announced in the Hebrew prophets and expected in Judaism. His basic purpose was evangelistic, to win converts to the Christian faith.”—D. Edmond Hiebert