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‘The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the gospel.' Thus Mark sums up the message of Jesus. Starting out from that reading, the author leads his readers from one surprise to the next as he reveals to them how the body of the evangelical narrative illustrates this message. Considering Mark to be the finest interpreter of his work, the author proceeds to a contextual analysis the meaning of the important words is examined and the decisive themes are revealed. Whether we study the names given to God, or titles attributed to Jesus, or the perception that Jesus and His adversaries have of God and His will, the reader will have no difficulty in following thanks to the author's accessible style and clear, flowing language: because these luminous pages describing ancient clothes, new wine, the Syro-Phenician, are an undiluted joy to read... This book was designed so that every reader finds something of interest: the specialist who will appreciate the technical footnotes and the bibliographical references as well as the method of approaching the text but also readers who are quite simply curious. They will find the text accessible and readable because the more technical features appear at the end of each chapter. With the non-specialist reader in mind, all Greek quotations have been transliterated and systematically translated, allowing access to all the subtleties that are usually savoured only by those familiar with the original language.