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 ...

If you’ve ever sat down and read through the Gospel of Mark in one sitting, one word stands out like a flashing light: immediately. Mark says it again and again — more than forty times. At first, it ...

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 ...

The orthodox view of Christianity is that Jesus preached the same doctrine to all men—there was no inner circle of “initiates” with special knowledge, as in Gnosticism and the mystery religions. The ...

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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