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Mark is the Gospel of youth; it is so brief, so vivid, so stirring, so strong; and these same qualities adapt the story to the active, restless, vigorous spirit of the whole modern world. It represents our Lord as the mighty, wonder-working Son of God, and thus bears a special message to an age which needs a word of divine authority, and
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The Gospel according to Mark is considered by most scholars to be the first written of the four Gospels. It is the shortest of the four. Mark begins with the baptism of Jesus and concludes with the Resurrection, leaving out the birth and post-Resurrection events. Mark and the Other Gospels
This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Mark is a result of a consistent, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of the contents of three of Paul’s letters: Galatians, First Corinthians and Philippians.
- David E Malick
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Gospel of Mark is the earliest, the shortest, and in many ways, the most mysterious of the four gospels in the New Testament. Thought to have been written some time after AD 64 (when Nero began persecuting Christians following the great fire of Rome), Mark’s gospel shows the….
Mark is to guess at the circumstances of those first readers. The tradition places the book in Rome after the death of Peter, and so written in the aftermath of Nero’s persecutions. Within the book itself, chapter 13 suggests that the imagined audience may have been experiencing persecution.
Explore the bold actions and words of Jesus in the book of Mark in the Bible. Learn about the book’s design, key themes, and core message with videos, podcasts, and more from BibleProject™.
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Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel, originally published in 1982 and extensively revised in 1999, was a turning point in Gospel studies, both for the contribution it made to Markan scholarship and for the methodological insights that it advanced.
