The Book of Mark

Now we move into Mark!! This is the shortest of the Gospel at only 16 Chapters. It is also fast moving. Notice as you read that Mark uses the word "immediately" a lot.

Mark was written somewhere between 50-70AD.

Mark was writing to a Gentile Christian Audience. He translates Aramaic phrases and explains Jewish customs.

Mark wrote it to preserve the account of Peter. Mark associated a lot with Peter in Peter's late life.


Many scholars today believe that Mark was the first of the Synoptic Gospels to be written and that Matthew and Luke pulled from Mark and another "Q" source when writing their Gospels. One reason Mark is believed to be written first is because it is the shortest of the Gospels and the tendency was to lengthen an account instead of shorten. This theory is called the "Priority of Mark"

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