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Mark

A Bible opened to the beginning of the Gospel of Mark.

Introduction to Mark

Mark presents Jesus as the Messiah (the Christ) and the Son of God.

A girl points with excitement toward something in the distance.

Jesus is baptized, subjected to temptation, and starts preaching.

A man looks out toward the horizon as though waiting for someone.

John the Baptist comes to prepare the way for one greater than him.

Image at top: First lines of Mark 16, Codex Sinaiticus. Late 2nd century or early 3rd century A.D. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P.Oxy_LXXXIII_5345.png, downloaded via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_16_first_lines,_Codex_Sinaiticus.png. P.Oxy. LXXXIII 5345, comprising Mark I 7–9, 16–18; published in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume LXXXIII (2018).

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