The Seminal Gospel: Forty Days with Mark

Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. . . And other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain. . . . And he said to them, Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? (Mark 4: 3ff.). The Gospel of Mark, being the first-written of Biblical and apocryphal Gospels, is historically seminal. It has sown the seeds from which all subsequent narrative accounts of Jesus of Nazareth-...See More