How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark’s Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood… The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.

…Anthony T. Hanson (1916-1991), The Church of the Servant [1962]