Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast.

Are we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture?

The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.

Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

It is time for our second Messianic checkpoint and it is with the Gospel of Mark, last Messianic

checkpoint or the first one we went to the Gospel of Saint John, which was the longest

Gospel.

Now we are going down to Mark, I don't know, down to Mark as the mess we're going to

Mark, which is the shortest of all four Gospels.

And again, joining us so grateful, as always, is Jeff Kavins, who's going to give us an

intro to this second Messianic checkpoint to this Gospel of Saint Mark.

So Jeff, thank you so much for being here and welcome.

Well, it's a privilege to join you on this journey and it's beautiful how people can go

through the Bible and then every once in a while jump forward a little bit to see the

fruit of what this whole story is about.

And with four Gospels, each one of them has a little bit different emphasis.

And together, you get a full look at Jesus, but we don't just blend them together because

each one of them is unique.

They are.

And it's one of the reasons why I love the fact that how we're doing this in this Bible

in a year is we had all of John at once.

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