Geoff's Miscellany

Mark's Jesus

A common claim in New Testament studies is that Mark's gospel must be first because it apparently contains the least developed understanding of Jesus, but John's gospel was last because it clearly refers to Jesus' divinity.

The problem with this is that Mark’s gospel alludes to and presupposes Jesus’ divinity by what it makes plain throughout its pages. The problem is that these assumptions only surface by means of certain allusions. In other words, Mark believes in Jesus’ divinity, but he only expresses this by “telling it slant.”[1]