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 ...

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear: “The KJV actually sang quite well.” When composer Christopher Tyler Nickel set out to create an oratorio of Mark’s gospel, he made an ambitious decision to ...

Photo by Greg Rosenke, courtesy of Unsplash. Call it a mission statement or maybe a closing argument. Today we receive a concise summary of the mission Jesus has given to his apostles. After he spoke ...

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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 ...