Joseph, the husband of Mary, is never named in Mark’s Gospel at all. Too bad for Joe?
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Absolutely not Mark and Luke were not there to witness Jesus.Mark gave a honest account of what he heard - its thought he heard through Peter and others.Quite obviously Luke spoke to Mary herself finding out from her about Jesus nativity. He is also said to have painted Our Lady of Czestochowa on a table that Jesus made while he spoke to her on many occasions.He was known for his painting skills among others. The painting still exist today at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa.The mistake here is thinking Mark was a actual witness to Jesus as a disciple during Jesus’s mission.Luke’s gospel gives the best account because he spoke to Mary he was not there either.
John says very little also in his Gospel is all about Jesus divinity from the very first line “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. All through his gospel its a reoccurring theme which makes Johns’s gospel unique - his message is that Jesus is God.
There’s debate that Mark was present during Jesus’ public ministry but was most likely during the later parts of it and Mark was most likely a young teenager during the time. Of course after the Crucifixion, he stuck around with St. Peter. One big thing is that it is commonly agreed that Jesus left home when his father died. No apostle ever met St Joseph. All they know of him is what was told to them by Jesus and Mary.
I think it might be quite possible that Mark may of been one of the “others” that Jesus chose to spread the gospel we don’t know much about them he would fit in that time period. If not right after the Crucifixion for sure.We do know he was not one of the twelve.
Mark was a lion in preaching Christ among the pagans, even more than in describing the time of Christ in his Gospel, in which, however, as a lion, he loved to bring out the figure of the Divine Miracle Worker more than that of the Messiah as a Man, as Matthew had done. And this was for the purpose of causing amazement and winning over the pagans through astonishment, as they were always seduced by what appeared to be wondrous.
Mark is the impulsive man who imposes Christ on the pagan multitudes, bringing out His supernatural—indeed, divine—power in miracles of every kind.
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Cade, I understand that your title for the thread was kind of joking. I think that Origen’s answer in the thread about reading the Bible was a good one concerning the Gospels. If the Gospel of Mark were a biography of Jesus, we could say that it falls short, leaving out some major people. But it’s not a biography. I think that John 20:31 applies to all the Gospels: they were written so that we may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing we may have life in His name.
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Peace to all,
To me, Hi to all, from the cross John took Mary home with him, As Queen of Council, to me, Mary helped write The Gospel According to Mary, I mean John and was inspirational also in the Book of Revelation. Mary was with John fro perhaps 40 years, to me. And why the Gospel According to John speaks so strongly of the Divinity of Jesus verses the other synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
Mary knew what is was like from the beginning, and what exactly the Word is, to me.
Like Mary says, Well, John in the beginning was your Father and Jesus and together we are One Holy Spirit Family of God spiritually becoming again in the Word in all One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, to me, through the flesh of my Son, The Christ, the manifestation of the Holy Family through the flesh of Jesus.
We are all God.
Mary wrote the Gospel According to John and The Book of Revelation, inspiration-ally, to me.
Mary, to me, told Bermadette Mary was God.
To me, Mary, Mother of Man from Heaven is not only True God and True Immaculate WoMan, Mary helped write the Bible.
Peace always,
Stephen