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Mark accompanied Barnabas and Paul on their missionary travels. [2] Mark started with them on their first trip, [3] but left them partway through. [4] Later, when planning their second trip, Barnabas and Paul could not agree about whether Mark should accompany them again, so Barnabas and Mark separated from Paul.
Mark of Apollonia (Greek: Μᾶρκος ὁ Ἀπολλονιάτης) was a figure in early Christianity. He was the nephew of Barnabas. [1] Tradition holds that he was bishop of Apollonia, and he is sometimes numbered among the Seventy Disciples. It was in his mother's house that the disciples sheltered after the Ascension of Jesus.
It was common for Jews of the period to bear both a Semitic name such as John (Hebrew: Yochanan) and a Greco-Roman name such as Mark (Latin: Marcus). [9] But since John was one of the most common names among Judean Jews, [10] and Mark was the most common in the Roman world, [11] caution is warranted in identifying John Mark with any other John or Mark.
Barnabas wished to take John Mark along, but Paul did not, as John Mark had left them on the earlier journey. The dispute ended by Paul and Barnabas taking separate routes. Paul took Silas as his companion, and journeyed through Syria and Cilicia; while Barnabas took John Mark to visit Cyprus. [18] Little is known of the subsequent career of ...
This John, also mentioned in verse 5, was John Mark, the nephew of Barnabas . Whatever the trouble was between Paul and John Mark, it was enough for Paul not to want John Mark to accompany him on a later journey, which caused a rift between Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:36–39).
Barnabas had a cousin what was an associate of Apostle Paul during his First Imprisonment in Rome in c.58-60 (Colossians 4:10; Philemon 24). Contrary to many people's assumptions, according to Hippolytus of Rome, Mark the Cousin of Barnabas is neither John Mark, nor Mark the Evangelist.
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Mark the Evangelist [a] (Koinē Greek: Μᾶρκος, romanized: Mârkos), also known as John Mark (Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννης Μᾶρκος, romanized: Iōánnēs Mârkos; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ, romanized: Yōḥannān) or Saint Mark, was the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Most modern Bible ...