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Eno Bassey

Mark's fast-paced Gospel: Jesus the Servant King who came to give his life for many.

Public writing

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  • Not to Be Served: The Line Mark Builds Everything Toward

    Mark never wastes a word. His whole gospel moves like a runner, and it is all aimed at one sentence near the end. For even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as

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  • Who Is This? The Question Mark Keeps Asking

    Jesus is asleep in the boat while a storm tries to kill his disciples. Mark places this story right after a long day of parables, as if the power is supposed to land without warning. The disciples hav

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  • The Verse at the Hinge of Mark

    Mark's Gospel is famous for its speed. The word "immediately" drives the action forward again and again. But the story slows at one hinge. Between two healings of blind men, in chapters 8 and 10 [[Mar

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  • Immediately: The Word That Runs Out of Breath (Mark's euthys)

    Mark's Greek has a nervous tic, and it is wonderful. The word is euthys, "immediately", and it appears over forty times in sixteen chapters, more than in the rest of the New Testament put together. In

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  • The Cost of Being Believed: Mark 15 and the Centurion at the Cross

    Mark spends fifteen chapters building a question — "who is this?" — and gives the first unambiguous human answer to the wrong person, at the worst possible moment. A Roman centurion, standing at the f

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