THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
The answer
Mark. It's the shortest Gospel and races along — the Greek word often translated "immediately" appears more than forty times, hurrying from scene to scene.
Why it’s interesting
Mark has no birth story and (in the oldest manuscripts) an abrupt ending at the empty tomb. Its speed and roughness are part of why most scholars think it was written first.
Scholarly consensus
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