Introduction to Mark

Structure:

Titles of Christ

Title	Before	Pivot	After
Christ	1	1	5
Son of the Blessed	0	0	1
Son of man	2	0	12
Son of David	0	0	3

Author:

• Young man who escaped (?) -- Mark 14:51-52
  Last Supper at his house (?)
• Meeting at his mother's house -- Acts 12:12
• Cousin of Barnabas -- Col. 4:10
• Went from Jerusalem to Antioch -- Acts 12:25
• Went on Paul's 1st missionary journey as far as Perga -- Acts 13:5, 13
• Went with Barnabas after argument with Paul -- Acts 15:37-39
• Later found with Paul -- Col. 4:10; Philm. 24
• Paul asked for him -- 2 Tim. 4:11
• With Peter -- 1 Pet. 5:13

Audience:

Today good for tribal peoples

Date:

Characteristics:

• Fewer stories with more details
• A lot of action
• No birth, genealogy, or Sermon on the Mount/Plain
• Many sentences begin with "and" -- Hebrewism
• Several Latinisms
• The shortest gospel
• The ending 16:9-20 is in question: missing from two 4th century Bibles