This first Mark volume covers chapters 1 through 8: the ministry of John the Baptist, the baptism and temptation, the calling of the first disciples, the authority shown over disease, demons, nature and death, the controversies over the Sabbath and over eating with sinners, the parables of the kingdom, the feeding of the multitudes, and Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi with the first prediction of the cross.

Each volume in the MacArthur New Testament Commentary works verse by verse through the Greek text, explains the passage in its context, and presents its theology with precision, in the service of expository preaching rather than academic debate. The series is the fruit of more than five decades of pulpit ministry at Grace Community Church.