Mark

Introduction ST. MARK - Introduction THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO ST. MARK. PREFACE. St. Mark, who wrote this Gospel, is called by St. Augustine, the abridger of St. Matthew; by St. Irenæus, the disciple and interpreter of St. Peter; and according to Origen and St. Jerome, he is the same Mark whom St. Peter calls his son. Stilting, the Bollandist, (in the life of St. John Mark, T. vii. Sep. 27, p. 387, who was son of the sister of St. Barnabas) endeavours to prove that this was the same person as our evangelist; and this is the sentiment of St. Jerome, and some others: but the general opinion is that John, surnamed Mark, mentioned in Acts xii. was a different person. He was the disciple of St. Paul, and companion of St. Barnabas, and was with St. Paul at Antioch, when our evangelist was with St. Peter at Rome, or at Alexandria, as Eusebius, St. Jerome, Baronius, and others observe. Tirinus is of opinion that the evangelist was not one of the seventy-two disciples, because as St. Peter calls him his son, he was converted by St. Peter after the death of Christ. St.…

• Mk 16:16 — Whoever believes and is baptized.

• Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist
• Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Last Supper
• Scott Hahn, The Fourth Cup
• Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus
• Scott Hahn & Curtis Mitch, Ignatius Catholic Study Bible
• Mary Healy, Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture: Mark