Mark's entire Gospel becomes essentially a passion narrative with an extended introduction....Consequently, Jesus is set forth as the Son of God in the first half of Mark's narrative (1:1;8:26) while he emerges as the suffering Servant in the second half (8:27;16:8).
Andreas Köstenberger and Gregory Goswell, Biblical Theology

Mark is also the earliest gospel. We discussed these things and more in today's class. The video for the class is here (passcode is vf3#+TU3).

Daniel