According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them. Traditionally, he's supposed to be the disciple of ...

How should we understand miracles? Many people in the ... he was a rube from the countryside. Mark, the first known writer of a Christian gospel, could have produced a traditional hagiography.

Many scholars accept the Two-Source Theory, that Matthew and Luke used the gospel of Mark and a hypothetical ... giving an account of his miracles and teachings while placing them in their ...

Miracles strengthen faith. Therefore the miracle has to happen first and then a person will trust and have faith. It was their faith in Jesus that made people well – eg a woman with a ...

To try to combat this misconception, Jesus touched the man when healing him. This is the only time in Mark’s Gospel where Jesus heals out of pity, showing great compassion by touching the leper.