Gospel Of Mark Analysis

According to tradition, the Gospel of Mark was written by John Mark himself. This is because the tradition believes that he was the interpreter of Peter and penned down whatever he could remember accurately based on what he heard and what was said by the Lord (Drane, 2015). Even though the interpretation was not in order, he was believed to be the actual author of the book having accompanied Peter and Paul and had a word of mouth with them. Modern scholars are unable to verify this tradition because it is difficult to understand what it is meant by the term being an interpreter of Peter. Whether it insinuates that nothing in the book was written in order which again contradicts other gospels is unverified. Besides, this tradition contradicts

A parable is usually a fictitious story used to illustrate moral perception, attitudes, expectations, and beliefs with religious principles and backgrounds. Jesus used this literary form to describe his vision of God's kingdom by providing an instructive example of what He thought about the Kingdom of God.In order to make His audience have a clear understanding of the Kingdom of God, Jesus used the parable of the mastered seed to illustrate how the Kingdom of God grows from a small beginning to a bigger size. He also used the parable of the sower to illustrate Godly things in an earthly manner by portraying himself as the sower planting seeds and the plant as the Kingdom of God. The nesting birds used in the parable illustrates those followers of Christ who seek refuge from persecution and hardship. (Harris, 2014). Jesus compares the small size of a mustard seed to the nature of God's Kingdom that grows just as a mustard seed will grow to a bigger size if given proper care and attention.ReferenceHarris, S. L. (2014). The New Testament: A Student's Introduction (8th ed.). Retrieved fromhttps://www.betheluniversityonline.net/cps/default.aspx?

Besides, 55% of the content in the book of Mathew is a repletion of what is contained in the book of Mark (Bultmann & Morgan, 2013). This makes scholars question why an eyewitness of Jesus Christ who had an opportunity to learn from the actions and deeds of Jesus would rely on a secondary source to give an account of what he had actually seen. It is for this reasons that the scholars in the book of Mathew as having been written by a Jew who had a lot of knowledge about traditional and traditional Jew.From the content of the Gospel, what we can infer about its author and the time and place of its composition is the move to stress the need to continue observing the laws of the Jews. The author neither emulates Mark to explain the custom of the Jews, nor does the author trace the ancestry of Jesus back to Adam as Luke did. By tracing the ancestry of Jesus up to Abraham who was the father of the Jews, it shows a significant difference in the lineage of Jesus with the account of the other Gospels (Bultmann & Morgan, 2013). Such a significantly different question the possibility of the Holy Spirit has guided any of the 12 disciples to write the book. The book was written for Jews audience suggesting that they had a stricter attitude towards the laws of the Jews, as opposed to the