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Andrew J. Kelley argues that Mark undergirds his high view of Jesus by characterizing him as a miracle-worker who does not defer to a deity in order to perform miracles. Survey work in the first half of this monograph shows that this is distinct from the many miracle-workers depicted in sources contemporary to the Gospel of Mark. Further emphasizing this distinction is the fact that all other miracle-workers in Mark either defer to the Jewish God or to Jesus to perform miracles. The author shows that these two characteristics of Mark´s depiction of miracle working in contrast to other depictions of miracle working in the time period make it likely that Mark is using Jesus´ autonomous miracle working to undergird his high, perhaps divine, view of Jesus.

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