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The Gospel of Mark. Now Mark is the shortest of the Gospels. It is the one that has the least references to Jesus Christ being God. It is for that reason that many people try to say that Mark was the first Gospel.
Many of the liberal scholars try to say that Mark wrote first, being shorter, then Matthew and Luke came along and embellished more, and some of that embellishment also includes claiming that Jesus was God, and they embellished that in.
Now when you look at the Gospel of Mark, you end up seeing that almost half of it refers to Jesus Christ as God directly or indirectly, so it's not like he skipped it. But here's the thing, just like we saw that Matthew focused on Jesus as King, Mark focuses on Jesus as a servant, that he came to be a servant, so that might explain why he doesn't have as many passages referring to him as God.
His focus is on the servanthood of Christ. So you see that Matthew, Mark, they're put together because they make good bookends. The King and the Servant, both are true. So you end up seeing a lot of things that you're going to see in all three of those accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Even in John, there's lots of similarities in accounts, mostly with the first three, but Matthew focuses on one aspect, King, where here in Mark, we are looking at Jesus as a servant. That's going to be his emphasis.
Each one of these Gospels focus on a different aspect of Jesus Christ, and this one is one of a servant.
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