Who Was Mark?

This is our 4th stop on this year-long time of walking with Jesus, through the eyes of Peter, from the pen of Mark, and under the flawless breath of God's Spirit the words of the Gospel by Mark lay before us.

First, MARK'S GOSPEL IS EXCITING! Why? Because it is the apostle Peter recounting the greatest story ever told. If you will let him, Mark will let you see, feel and experience what it was like to walk around Israel watching God in a body, right here on earth. This gospel is Peter's dramatic, vivid, full of color action packed video that takes us on an eye witness journey with none other than the Lord of Glory, Jesus Christ.

How do we know this is Peter's Gospel? From Church History we find the very earliest statement about the Gospel by Mark. This reference was written by Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis, about 140AD. Here is what he said:

Mark became Peter's interpreter and wrote accurately all that he remembered, not, indeed, in order, of the things said or done by the Lord. For he had not heard the Lord, nor had he followed him, but later on, as I said, he followed Peter, who used to give teaching as necessity demanded but not making, as it were, an arrangement of the Lord's oracles, so single points as he remembered them. For to one thing he gave attention, to leave out nothing of what he had heard and to make no false statements in them.