Article October 1, 1984 Issue

SECOND THOUGHT

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The Washington Post

From The Washington Post, December 24, 1983

"The four gospels are among those books that deepen with every reading. They also seem to assume a different profile as well.

"If you return, as I recently did, to Mark, the earliest of the four writers, you are surprised to find that so much of his narrative concerns an itinerant healer who captures hearts by making sick people whole. He casts out demons, gives sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, loosens stuck tongues.

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