Excerpt from The Life of Christ According to St. Mark The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ - therefore, as far as the knowledge and judgment of St Mark were concerned, nothing before the coming of John the Baptist was an essential part of the Good News. The Good News, as we gather from the contents of our book, was partly about Jesus, and partly proclaimed by Jesus; it is unfolded in the following chapters. Thus the subject and the preacher are one, Jesus Christ the Son of God. The reader would understand from the term Christ that Jesus was a Jewish leader and teacher, who was believed to be the Messiah or saviour-king whom the Jews expected. He would suppose that the man who was called Christ, the Son of God, was a teacher with extraordinary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.