The author of Mark is clearly focused on the concrete, the here-and-now. He spends little time in the abstract beyond the words of Jesus' parables.
I believe that he may have been an Inspector (ISTJ).
Generally speaking, Inspectors are not comfortable with anything that gets too fancy. Their words tend to be plain and down-to-earth, not showy or high-flown (Keirsey.com)
This describes Mark's sparse, concrete narrative. It is quite different in style (though not content) from the other synoptic gospels.
Most measures of personality type separate people into four main categories. There are four gospels.
Maybe I'll discover in further study that the other three gospels were written by people with the other three main personality types.
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