‘Finishing Well’ is the name of the overall game. Right here was a rich, youthful ruler – a 1st century ‘yuppie’ in the event that you will – who, although getting off to a fairly problematic beginning, completed well, indeed.

A wealthy youthful ruler questioned Christ in what he needed to carry out to inherit eternal existence. Mark’s Gospel includes a fine detail that Matthew and Luke failed to point out: ‘ And Jesus searching upon him loved him…’ This suggestions at the possibility that young John Mark himself may have been that rich young man.