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Podcast: The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Episode: The Gospel of Mark on Discipleship
Description: Mark starts, not with the genealogy of Jesus like Matthew did, and he did not start with the birth of Jesus, like Luke did, but instead he started with a disciple of the Lord, John the Baptist, a faithful servant who in chapter one was arrested, and in chapter 6 was put to death. Jesus then called his 12 disciples, and many are said they "immediately," left it all and followed Jesus. Mark does not paint these men as perfect. On the contrary he paints them as men with little faith that had a hard time understanding the ways and words...