The Gospel of Mark begins with the Lord as an adult and goes straight into His ministry. It is very much a doing Gospel and in the Greek it moves very quickly. As the Text that follows on from Matthew, its stories depict the putting into practise the truths of the Word that Matthew has introduced us to. And so in this sense, the Gospel of Mark calls on us to compel ourselves to make the effort to work. To take up the tools that the Lord as the Word has offered us and to use them to examine the quality our inner, mental life.
