Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Background To Mark's Gospel_2
- Gospel
- The word Gospel
- God
- Good
- Spell
- News
- Good News
- Written
- By Mark
- Written in Rome
- Around 64/65 AD
- PEAP
- Preserve the Word of God
- Encourage believers
- Explain Word of God
- Accurate record of events
- Authority
- Persecuted Christians
- Give hope
- Rome
- Oral Tradition
- Stories passed by word of mouth
- Lasted 30 years
- From 33AD
- Death of Jesus
- To 65AD
- Writing of Mark's Gospel
- Expectation of Paousia
- Mark
- Who was he?
- No one knows
- Common name
- Not a disciple
- Close friend of Peter
- Interpreter?
- Strongly linked to disciples
- May have met Jesus
- Naked man at Gethsemane?
- Only mentioned by Mark
- At Jesus' arrest
- It is thought Mark's mother
owned the House used for the
Last Supper
- Became a meeting place for early Christians
- Sources
- Primary
- Eye-witnesses
- Word of God
- Divine Inspiration
- Peter
- Disciple
- Written accounts
- Eye-witness
- Secondary
- Oral Tradition
- Missionary journeys
- Written accounts
- Non eye-witness
- Spread of Christianity
- Centre of Christianity
- Jerusalem
- Acts of the Apostles
- Spread by
- Pilgrims
- Traders
- Paul and Barnabas
- Missionary journeys
- Romans
- Admired monotheism
- Followed Christian standards
- High morals
- Known as God-fearers
- Characterisics
- Not a biography
- Doesn't tell everything
- Contains Profession of Faith
- Uses certain points
- To get a message across
- Shows Jesus' humanity
- Anger
- Fear of death
- Son of Man
- Shows Jesus' Authority
- Teaching
- Healing
- Overcoming death
- Gave hope
- Disciples' mistakes
- Lack of faith
- Abandoning Jesus
- Challenging Jesus
- Taught people to learn from these mistakes
- Importance of Jesus' Death
- Talks about his death early in the Bible
- Must be viewed WITH resurrection