Abstract
This essay is based in previous research on the Pre-Markan Passion Narrative. Redactional analysis shows that the author of the Gospel of Mark re-worked that traditional story to bind it to the rest of his narrative. On the other hand, a redactional study of Mark 1-13 reveals that the purpose of some references added by the evangelist was to introduce the passion narrative. These remarks permit to propose an explanation of the composition process of this gospel. The author of Mark took the traditional passion narrative as his model and included in his narrative oral traditions and collections that shaped following the script of a traditional summary of Jesus' public activity. In so doing, Mark achieved a narrativization of the Jesus' tradition following the model of the ancient biography, a new literary model that had important theological implications.
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