Baltasar Espinosa, the tragic protagonist in Jorge Luis Borges' "The Gospel According to Mark," is elaborately designed by the author to have many similarities with Jesus Christ, yet their journeys to death differ. The purpose of Jesus' crucifixion is the theme of four gospels, and it represents the salvation of all human beings. Similarly to Jesus, Espinosa is also nailed on a cross; however, his ultimate death at the end of "The Gospel According to Mark" tells the fanaticism of wrongly interpretation of religious ideal. From the title of the story, it has shown that Espinosa's fate is connected to Jesus, and his death is inevitable
             Espinosa, a current medical student, involves in the Gutres' religious hallucination and dies as Jesus did just because he accepts his cousin's invitation to spend the summer months at La Colorada ranch. Throughout the story, Jorge Luis Borges elaborately designs many details that reflect Jesus on Espinosa. Espinosa is described as a person who has "an almost unlimited kindness and a capacity for public speaking" (524). Those are also Jesus' characteristics; he is kind to the poor and the sick, and he also has the ability to convey his messages in the public. Moreover, the story indicates that the Espinosa's death happens at age thirty-three (524), as the same age when Jesus dies. Then several sentences at the opening of the story even show Espinosa's fatal destiny that he and Jesus have in common. "These events took place at ... the last days of March 1928" (524). Although these events are not explicitly depicted then, it has revealed the time that is around the Good Friday. Then the readers know that the events are the weird relationship between Espinosa and the Gutres, and his coming death when the story keeps expanding. At the end, the Gutres do crucify Espinosa on Friday as the Roman soldiers had done to Jesus....