Saint Évangile selon Saint Marc

The earliest of the four Gospels, attributed to John Mark, companion of the apostle Peter. Written in Greek for a Roman Christian community, this account emphasizes Jesus as the suffering Servant whose path to glory leads through death and resurrection. Mark's brisk, vivid narrative moves at urgent speed, rich with vivid details absent from Matthew and Luke: the trembling High Priest at Jesus's trial, the young man who fled naked into the night, the women silently bearing spices at the empty tomb. Its terse Greek, often translated as 'immediately' or 'and then,' creates relentless forward momentum. This is the Gospel of action and mystery, where Jesus repeatedly commands silence about his miracles and where the final word remains an empty tomb and a young man's message: 'He has risen.' Shaping Christian liturgy, theology, and Western literature for two millennia.