Mark: a study in fours
At the moment in Bible study, we’re currently reading through the Gospel of Mark. As I’ve been preparing for this tour through the Evangelist’s testimony, I’ve been struck again and again that, although Mark is often described as the “simplest Gospel”, Mark is by no means simplistic. The more I study, the more I realize that the construction of this work was extremely carefully planned out.
When we began our study, I remarked to the group that Mark has something of a penchant for the number four. We have now been studying Mark’s Gospel for a couple of months, so last week as we reviewed the material covered thus far, we spent some time highlighting some of the quintuplets we have encountered thus far. In today’s post, I would like to list the collections we found…