I have always enjoyed first person narratives. This is how it reads:"! have never known a man like Jesus. As we traveled together throughout Galilee, crowds of people came from all over to hear him teach about the kingdom of God. People were astonished to see him heal all sorts of diseases and even cast out demons. I remember one wild man who used to wander among the tombs at night, shrieking and cutting himself with sharp stones. But that's a story l'll be telling you later. My close friend John Mark (in one of my letters I call him "my son" —1 Peter 5:13) will write it down for me because he is eloquent in Greek and I'm just an uneducated fishermen.

"Robert Mounce, president emeritus Whitworth University, is a biblical scholar of note having published a number of New Testament commentaries. His work in biblical translation has involved him in many of the more prominent translations such as the NIV, NLT and

the ESV