How Long to Read Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

How Long Does it Take to Read Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 36 minutes to read Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark by Prof. C. Clifton Black

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Mark’s genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditions under which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of God’s good news. The Evangelist hurries one along breathlessly, “immediately,” making sure that the reader lurches with the characters into one pothole after another. “What is this new teaching” that consorts with the flagrantly sinful, turning the pious homicidal, intimates into strangers, and mustard seeds into “the greatest of all ... shrubs”? Jesus’ closest adherents, the Twelve, are among the most muddled. Who can blame them? They ask for an obscure parable’s interpretation and receive an answer even more confounding. They are told to feed thousands with next to nothing. Their boat almost capsizes while their teacher sleeps. As they oar in rough waters, the teacher strides the waves intending to bypass them. Putting the reader in the same boat, Mark structures conversations with Jesus that make little sense, if any. The Twelve are craven, stupid, self-serving, and disobedient: meet the average Christian. Besides, “their hearts were hardened.” Who hardens hearts? God. Should not God’s Messiah lift the burdens of those following him? What kind of Christ heads to a cross, handing his disciples another for themselves. “Do you not yet understand?” from the Introduction

How long is Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark?

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark by Prof. C. Clifton Black is 327 pages long, and a total of 84,039 words.

This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 39 minutes to read Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark aloud.

What Reading Level is Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark?

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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