In today's lesson, we cover the introduction of the Gospel of Mark, or the Good News according to Mark. He writes like a reporter and gets to the point quickly. In just the first 20 verses of Mark we cover John the Baptist's ministry of calling people to repentance and baptism. We see that Jesus comes to John the Baptist to be baptized, but He does not repent of sin, because He is sinless, but He gets baptized which starts His ministry of death and resurrection which first lead Him to the desert to be tempted by the devil. Then Jesus called his first four disciples who immediately left their fishing jobs and followed Jesus who promised to make them fishers of men. We see that John the Baptist suffered, Jesus suffered, will the disciples suffer also?
