The Gospel according to Mark is an action-packed, vivid account of Jesus' actions and achievements. His eyewitness accounts provide more detail than the other Gospels. For instance in the account of the friends that lower the paralytic through the roof, Mark identifies that there were four friends while the other Gospels just label them as "friends."
Mark wrote for Gentile Christians, especially Romans. He concentrates more on Jesus miracles than His teaching. Many believe that Mark wrote in Rome, under Peter's supervision and that it was written in 70 A.D. making it the first Gospel to be written.
One of Mark's favorite words is "immediately" which he uses often in this the shortest of the Gospels.
Do you ever feel shortchanged by how much detail of Jesus's life has been ommitted out of the Bible? I'd like to know what he did during the "lost" years. The years not recorded in the Bible that the Council of Nicea deemed "the only Bible".
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