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Understood today as the first written gospel, Mark seems to be the most direct and straightforward account of Jesus’ life. In his verse-by-verse commentary, Ralph P. Martin brings out the power of this eminently practical and persuasive Gospel. Martin emphasizes how Mark’s Gospel is a story of action—as encouraging and compelling today as when it was written.

The angle of Jesus’ vision changes, and the text looks ahead to the events leading up to AD 70. “The desolating (or appalling) sacrilege” (v. 14) is a famous phrase that goes back to Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 and 1 Maccabees, where it speaks of an act of desecration that rendered the Jerusalem temple defiled. Specifically it was Antiochus’ trespass and sacrifice of a pig on Yahweh’s altar. It left the Jews horror-struck. We read on that after the Maccabean victory this defilement
Mark 13:14–23
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