According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them. Traditionally, he's supposed to be the disciple of Peter ...
According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them. Traditionally, he's supposed to be the disciple of Peter ...
One of the most commonly held conclusions from modern New Testament scholarship is that the Gospel of Mark is the earliest gospel to have been written and that Luke and Matthew draw on Mark (and an ...
We are blessed to proclaim from Saint Mark’s Gospel currently at Holy Mass in these early weeks of Ordinary Time. As we know, Mark is the most bare-bones of all the canonical Gospels and, as I have ...
Beginning this week and continuing until Lent, Catholics will be listening to the Gospel of Mark at weekday Eucharists. This wasn’t always the case. When I was growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, ...
Readings: Mark 11:1-10 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark 14:1-15:47 If the Passion of St. Mark’s Gospel were a murder mystery, the colt would be the key. Seems odd, doesn’t it, that Jesus, for the ...
On the first day of New Testament classes, I alert my students: the scriptures emerged in complex circumstances. When they were written, nobody knew how things would turn out. Every­thing is fluid.
Discover Mark’s vision of Jesus as the mysterious figure “the Son of Man,” misunderstood and rejected by all. Learn of this gospel’s direct and stark portrayal of the power revealed through suffering ...
(RNS) — Of the four Gospel writers, Mark is the one you would not want to invite to dinner. But he is the one who will challenge you to listen more carefully and to think more deeply about Jesus. (RNS ...