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An early Christian tradition deriving from Papias of Hierapolis (c.60–c.130 AD) [11] attributes authorship of the gospel to Mark, a companion and interpreter of Peter, but most scholars believe that it was written anonymously, [6] [12] and that the name of Mark was attached later to link it to an authoritative figure. [13]
Mark the Evangelist wrote down the sermons of Peter, thus composing the Gospel according to Mark, [18] before he left for Alexandria in the third year of Claudius (AD 43). [ 19 ] According to the Acts 15:39, [ 20 ] Mark went to Cyprus with Barnabas after the Council of Jerusalem.
In Christian tradition, the Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four canonical Gospel accounts. In the New Testament, they bear the following titles: the Gospel of Matthew; the Gospel of Mark; the Gospel of Luke; and the Gospel of John. [1]
Marcan priority (or Markan priority) is the hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the three synoptic gospels to be written, and was used as a source by the other two (Matthew and Luke). It is a central element in discussion of the synoptic problem—the question of the documentary relationship among these three gospels.
The anti-Marcionite prologues are three short prefaces to the gospels of Mark, Luke and John. No prologue to Matthew is known. They were originally written in Greek, but only the prologue to Luke survives in the original language.
A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark. Paulist Press. ISBN 0-8091-3059-9. Lunn, Nicolas P. (2015), The Original Ending of Mark: A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9-20, James Clarke & Co. MacDonald, Dennis R. "The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark" Yale University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-300-08012-3.
Adela Collins suggests, "Since the author of Acts also wrote the Gospel according to Luke, it could be that this critical portrait was intended to undercut the authority of the second Gospel." [7] Michael Kok notes that "Mark's Gospel was a bit of an embarrassment to the refined literary and theological tastes of an educated Christian like Luke ...
It is commonly maintained that the Gospel of Mark was originally written in Koine Greek, and that the final text represents a rather lengthy history of growth.For more than a century attempts have been made to explain the origin of the gospel material and to interpret the space between the related events and the final inscripturation of the contents of the Gospel.