The Gospel Series
From Peter’s Lips to Mark’s Pen: The Gospel of Mark’s True Origin
History and the making of the second Gospel
What would it feel like to sit at Peter’s feet and listen to him tell stories about Jesus?
What would it be like if someone in the first century sat down in the same room as Peter and wrote down all of his Jesus stories for us to read, all these years later?
What if I handed you that document today?
Many voices today will claim we do not know who wrote Mark. But this clashes with history.
Multiple ancient historians record exactly who wrote Mark, where, and why. It’s a pretty good story.
Here are four:
Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150–215 AD; Adumbrationes in Epistolas Canonicas on 1 Peter 5:13):
“Mark, the follower of Peter, while Peter was publicly preaching the gospel at Rome in the presence of some of Caesar’s knights and uttering many testimonies about Christ, on their asking him to let them have a record of the things that had been said, wrote the Gospel that is called the Gospel of Mark from the things said by Peter, just as Luke is recognized as the pen that wrote the Acts of the Apostles and as the translator of the Letter…
