The author of the Gospel of Mark — the earliest of the four canonical Gospels (~65–70 CE) — whose urgent, compressed narrative (characteristic Greek word 'immediately') presents Jesus's ministry as a sequence of dramatic actions leading to the cross.
Wrote the earliest Gospel and the narrative source for Matthew and Luke (Markan priority) — making Mark's spare, dramatic narrative the foundation of the Synoptic tradition — and ending abruptly at 16:8 with the women fleeing the empty tomb in terror, the most haunting ending in ancient literature.
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