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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.

John the Baptist has already been on the stage as the “prophesied preparer” of Jesus’ way, a role drawn from the OT (Mal 3:1; Isa 40:3; Ex 23:20). Yet not everyone was pleased with John’s other messages, especially when he came near to bone and exposed the sensitive nerve-endings of King Herod’s love life. He boldly denounced the way Herod was playing around in high society and Herod’s wife-swapping practice (6:17–18) merited his rebuke. Herod was an ambivalent character,
Mark 6:1–29
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