Chuck Missler - The Gospel of Mark - Session 12.avi

A rich young ruler questioned Christ about what he needed to do to inherit eternal life. Mark's Gospel includes a detail that Matthew and Luke failed to mention: "And Jesus looking upon him loved him..." This hints at the possibility that young John Mark himself may have been that rich young man.

An early church tradition also suggests that it was this same Mark who was "the certain young man" who followed Christ right up to His entry into the house of the high priest and then, when the guards tried to lay hold of him, left the linen cloth that he was clothed with in their hands and fled naked! (Mark was the only one who included this incident.)

Mark accompanied Paul and Barnabasto Cyprus, but later returned to Jerusalem, which deeply disappointed Paul. Having felt abandoned and betrayed, Paul refused to take him on the second journey, and thus began a bitter quarrel between Paul and Barnabas (to whom Mark was related). Silas then accompanied Paul in retracing his steps, and Mark accompanied Barnabas to Cyprus.

Fortunately, Paul and Mark later reconciled when Paul was in prison in Rome. Mark served as his aide and then as a delegate on an important mission to Asia Minor. Later Paul asked Timothy to bring Mark back with him to Rome because he was useful in service. When Peter was writing 1st Peter, he affectionately called Mark "his son." It may well have been Peter that originally led him to Christ. It was Mark's intimacy with Peter that resulted in his intimate portrait of Christ we call the Gospel of Mark.
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