Modern readers will also be able to make connections with the words and actions of Jesus at the Last Supper. Some people think that this miracle didn’t take place exactly as Mark recorded it.

Jesus grew up in Nazareth, but the people there did not recognise his importance. They would have known his family very well and would have seen him as a carpenter. They would have found it ...

Whoever he was, Mark's gospel was the first to attempt to tell the story of the life and the death of Jesus. He probably drew on written collections of miracle stories, on parables, and perhaps on ...

Mark's is the first of the written gospels. It's really the one that establishes... the life of Jesus as a story form. It develops a narrative from his early career, through ...the main points of ...