Reliving the Passion: Meditations on the Suffering, Death, and the Resurrection of Jesus as Recorded in Mark

In Reliving the Passion, master storyteller and National Book Award winner Walter Wangerin Jr. guides readers on an intimate, poetic, forty-day Lenten pilgrimage through the final days of Jesus Christ as chronicled in the Gospel of Mark. With evocative prose, psychological realism, and deep biblical reverie, Wangerin places the reader directly into the passion narrative—from the agony of Gethsemane and the betrayal of Judas to the brutal Roman cross and the triumphant empty tomb. Wangerin invites believers not merely to observe Christ's suffering from a distance, but to experience personal conviction, grief, and breathtaking gratitude at the foot of the cross. This enduring devotional classic revitalizes Easter contemplation, leading hearts into profound worship and adoration for the Savior.