Mark - Introduction
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Everywhere the servant character of the incarnate Son is manifest. The key verse is Mark 10:45 . "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." The characteristic word is "straightway," a servant's word. There is no genealogy, for who gives the genealogy of a servant? The distinctive character of Christ in Mark is that set forth in Philippians 2:6-8 .
But this lowly Servant, who emptied Himself of the "form of God," "and was found in fashion as a man," was, nevertheless, "the mighty God" Isaiah 9:6 as Mark distinctly declares ( Mark 1:1 ) and therefore mighty works accompanied and authenticated His ministry. As befits a Servant-Gospel, Mark is characteristically a Gospel of deeds, rather than on words.
The best preparation of the heart for the study of Mark is the prayerful reading of Isaiah 42:1-21 ; 50:4-1152:13-53:12 ; Zechariah 3:8 ; Philippians 2:5-8 .
Mark is in five principal divisions:
The events recorded in this book cover a period of 7 years.