ST. MARK'S GOSPEL: THE TEXT DIVIDED INTO PARAGRAPHS, AND ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH NOTES. BY J. DAVIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, Author of "Notes on Genesis," and "Notes on Exodus." GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32, FLEET STREET; NOTES ON ST. MARK'S GOSPEL. HISTORY OF ST. MARK. Particulars found in his Gospel:-None,-unless he was the "young man having a linen cloth cast about his naked body," who followed Christ, when, after His apprehension, His disciples "all forsook him and fled." Mention of him elsewhere in the New Testament. St. Peter, in his First Epistle, says, "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.' وو (There is a Mark, (John Mark), mentioned in Acts, and in Coloss., Philemon, and 2 Tim. He was nephew to Barnabas, and a companion of him and St. Paul; but there is little doubt that he is not the same person as the writer of this Gospel). From the fact that St. Peter calls Mark "my son," it is most probable that he was a convert of that Apostle. We know nothing certain of his career and end. HIS GOSPEL. Time of writing, about 60 A.D.,-being thus the earliest of the four. Place,-Rome. It was written, probably, under the supervision of St. Peter. Of this there is proof in the fact that, while matters creditable to that apostle, and which are found in the other Evangelists, are left out in Mark, his faults are fully related. This is especially the case with regard to his Denial. |