Pedro en la historia de Jesús según Marcos

Abstract

The Gospel of St. Mark attempts to answer two crucial questions: Who is Jesus? What does it mean to be one of his disciples? These two questions converge, in a paradigmatic way, in the person, vocation and mission – or in other words – in the story of Peter, the most important person in Mark’s writings after Jesus himself. This article aims to reveal in detail that the Gospel writer’s intentionally Christological account shows Peter’s life to be a response to the challenge of being a disciple, with all its highs and lows. That response made Peter the model for disciples of Jesus and thus the pages of this unique living work are of the greatest help to Christians here and now who wish to imitate his example and take on board all that is positive in him.