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.
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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According to the Church the Bile cannot contradict itself, all the Gospels teach us what Jesus taught fundamentally to His Apostle’s. But it was never meant to be a biography, as St. John puts it, “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not to be written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have eternal life in His name.”(John 20:30-31)
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From the Gospel according to Luke
10:17-24
The seventy-two disciples returned rejoicing and said to Jesus,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.”
Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
Behold, I have given you the power
‘to tread upon serpents’ and scorpions
and upon the full force of the enemy
and nothing will harm you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.
”At that very moment he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows who the Son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
Turning to the disciples in private he said,
“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”