"Mark is the first and most exciting communicator of the Gospel of Jesus Christ," says David L. McKenna. From Peter's eyewitness account, Mark gives us an inspired and authentic "you-are-there" report of the serving, suffering, and saving ministry of Jesus. It is Good News--the gospel of hope--a message needed as sorely today as it was by the persecuted Roman Christians for whom Mark wrote. Here is a commentary distinguished by its creativity, its clarity of thought and organization, its stunning use of illustrations from both rich personal experience and from wide acquaintance with literature of all periods