For secular humanists, Mark offers something rare: a portrait of Jesus that feels profoundly human and radically ethical. This is not the cosmic Christ of John's Gospel, nor the law-fulfilling messiah of Matthew. This is a man of flesh and vulnerability, of compassion and confrontation. He heals not to prove divinity but to restore dignity. He preaches not dogma, but direct action. He challenges not the irreligious, but the powerful religious systems that have grown indifferent to suffering.

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