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What is the purpose and provenance of Mark's Gospel?
Date Submitted: 09/17/2004 23:57:43
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What is the purpose and provenance of Mark's Gospel? Mark's Gospel as it is offers little direct evidence as to why, where or when it was written. There are hints of course but no direct statement of purpose. By careful examination of Mark's Gospel and through also examining historical sources and historical events identifying purpose and provenance of Mark's Gospel become less of a riddle. It is probable that the Gospel of Mark was written …
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… ... those who were present ... besought Mark, since he had followed him (Peter) for a long time and remembered the things that had been spoken, to write out the things that had been said; and when he had done this he gave the gospel to those who asked him. When Peter learned of it later, he neither obstructed nor commended" (HE 6.14.6-7). [ ]Guelich, 1989. xii [ ]Eusebius, H.E. 3.39.4. cite. Guelich, 1989. xii. [ ]Guelich, 1989. xiii. [ ]Mark 4:1-20 [ ]Mark 15:39
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