Spiritual Confrontation in the Besorah of Mark

The Besorah of Mark is considered by a wide consensus of scholars to be the earliest account we possess of the life of Yeshua the Messiah, underlying the later accounts of Matthew and Luke.1 Nevertheless, from my perspective as a veteran Messianic Jewish student and teacher, Mark is often overlooked. John is commonly presented, especially in an evangelistic context, as the introductory text for the whole New Testament. In the Messianic Jewish world, Matthew is often favored. But Mark has its own, unique value, and its pervasive treatment of the question “Who is Yeshua?” which scholars acro