Is Jesus God in The Gospel of Mark? It is sometimes asserted that because the Gospel of Mark is the oldest surviving gospel, that it is the least theologically loaded. While Jesus may have said, “Before Abraham was, I am,” in John, chapter eight verse 58, he made no comparable claims in Mark. Mark’s rendering of Jesus is docile and tame. He did not make grand claims about himself. Sure, he was the King of Israel, the promised Messiah, that is not in doubt. But the argument suggests that he…