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According to church tradition, Mark, also called John Mark or simply John, is the author of the gospel and the interpreter who translated Peter in his preaching against Greek-speaking audiences. He was the son of a certain Mary, whose house in Jerusalem was open to the primitive Christian community. Cousin of Barnabas was probably like him priestly race. States on the one hand the tradition that Mark would never personally heard the preaching of the Lord, but then many have wanted to find out on the boy who ran away naked in the Garden of Gethsemane, an episode that only the gospel attributed to him concerned. You may have met the group of followers without being properly disciple.
At the start of the expansion of the gospel, Paul and Barnabas went to Jerusalem to Antioch Marcos taking with them, he accompanied them on their first missionary enterprises, Cyprus and Perges, returning to unknown causes.
Barnabas, eager to take Mark with them again when the apostle was planning his second trip, was opposed by Paul, who went alone. Mark therefore followed again Barnabas to Cyprus. However, Marcos reappears with Paul in Rome, but it's belief that it was rather a disciple of Peter who confirms this assumption by calling him "son" him in his first letter. The gospel attributed to him also closely follows the outline of the speeches of Peter who has preserved the book of Acts.
We know nothing of its existence later. The second letter to Timothy points out among peers of this disciple of Paul, according to a fact that reflects the historian Eusebius of Caesarea (early fourth century), the Church of Alexandria would have had the founder. His last years and the place of his death are unknown.
The short story that bears his name observer discovers a spirit and agile. Only Mark, for example, emphasizes the greenness of the grass on which Jesus did lay to the hungry crowd before multiplying the loaves and fishes for the first time.
The broad lines of his gospel, meanwhile, inequalities reflecting deep historical credibility and demonstrate unique theological value. Mark begins by presenting Jesus well received by people, but soon his humble messianism, so far claiming ownership of the popular expectations of the Jews, causes mass deception; enthusiasm first-off, the Lord withdraws from Galilee to devote full instruction to the disciples, who by the mouth of Peter confess the divinity of his Master. From this recognition of Caesarea, the whole story is focused on Jerusalem, the holy city, finally, the opposition grows and culminates in the unfair trial and passion, which reaches its triumphant response when Christ left his grave, according to what was prophesied of himself.
The messianic secret, which Mark does a central theme, and all the fruit gives Jesus the servant humiliated by the evil and ignorance of men who had come to rescue him, is exalted by God, as must be all that it is a heart and continue on the road, the only one to understand the "Good News of Jesus Christ, Son of God" who has transmitted Marcos in a popular language, often wrong in the way, but lively and charming.
