According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them. Traditionally, he's supposed to be the disciple of Peter ...
One of the great responsibilities of the preacher is to make the Bible come alive for his listeners. A careful study of the Gospel of Mark will help much in the fulfilment of that task. The early ...
Because my Lent took a nosedive about two-thirds of the way through, I am still immersed in a project I undertook in order to ...
For centuries, the strange ending of Mark’s Gospel has provoked heated debates. Is it possible that the “original” Gospel, the first “edition” of Mark, ends ...
Previous forgeries make announcements of new archeological discoveries difficult to believe. Early copies of the Gospel of Mark are not as common as the other three gospels. The reason: 90 percent of ...
Disclaimer: This article is based on actual news from the real world – honestly! However, it has been sprinkled with a healthy dose of satire. In the 1970s, a group of dusty, sleep-deprived scholars ...
The gospel of Mark is the second to appear in the New Testament, but most scholars now agree that it was composed first. While the work is attributed to "Mark," we will probably never know the ...
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