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Gospel Of Mark Reality

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When attempting to determine the author of the Gospel of Mark, it is simple to take the name of the book and believe that John Mark was the writer. However, when reading the Gospel of Mark, no mention is made about who wrote the book; therefore, while the name of the book implies the author is Mark the reality is that the book’s writer is unknown (Wilcox, 2014). Consequently, the information contained within the book is inconsistent with a first-hand account of Jesus’ ministry and lacks the “chronological order” (Harris, 2014, p. 137) of someone that lived during His time on earth. Thus, church historian, Papias, believed that the information found in the Gospel of Mark derived from the stories of others instead of personal knowledge (Harris,
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