Mark
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for
he is profitable to me for the ministry....
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And the contention was so sharp between them, that they
departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took
Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;...
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Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and
said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh
mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my
children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him
not....
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Mark the Evangelist (Coptic: Ⲙⲁⲣⲕⲟⲥ; Latin: Marcus; Hebrew:
מרקוס; Greek: Μᾶρκος) is the traditional author of the Gospel
of Mark. He is also the founder of the Church of Alexandria,
one of the original four main sees of Christianity.
Tradition identifies him with John Mark mentioned as a
companion of Saint Paul in Acts, who later is said to h...
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mark: In the King James Version this word is used 22 times
as a noun and 26 times as a predicate. In the former case it
is represented by 5 Hebrew and 3 Greek words; in the latter
by 11 Hebrew and 2 Greek words. As a noun it is purely a
physical term, gaining almost a technical significance from
the "mark" put upon Cain (Gen 4:15 the King Jame...
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-A nephew of Barnabas
Col 4:10
-A disciple of Jesus
Ac 12:12,25; 13:5,13
-Paul and Barnabas contend concerning
Ac 15:36-39
-A convert of Peter
1Pe 5:13
-Fellow-worker with Paul at Rome
Col 4:10,11; 2Ti 4:11; Phm 1:24...
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one of the evangelists, and probable author of the Gospel
bearing his name. (Marcus was his Latin surname. His Jewish
name was John, which is the same as Johanan (the grace of
God). We can almost trace the steps whereby the former
became his prevalent name in the Church. "John, whose
surname was Mark" in Ac 12:12,25; 15:37 becomes "John" alone...
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the evangelist; "John whose surname was Mark" (Acts 12:12,
25).
Mark (Marcus, Col. 4:10, etc.) was his Roman name,
which
gradually came to supersede his Jewish name John. He
is called
John in Acts 13:5, 13, and Mark in 15:39, 2 Tim.
4:11, etc.
He was the son of Mary, a woman apparently of some
means and
influence, and was probably born in...
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Townson conjectures that the young man introduced as fleeing
and leaving his linen robe, fear overcoming shame (Mark 16:51-
52), was Mark himself, on the ground that otherwise we see no
reason for its introduction, being unconnected with the
context. If the young man was the writer, awakened out of
sleep by the noise near his house of men proce...
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