Mark 1:22

²²The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.

Mark 1 launches the Gospel with explosive urgency. John the Baptist prepares the way in the wilderness, baptizing and proclaiming one greater to come. Jesus appears, is baptized, and immediately driven into the wilderness for testing. He then bursts onto the scene in Galilee, callin