Day 08 - Mark 8:14-12:40

Mark likely wrote his gospel around AD 67 or 68. Mark does not appear anywhere in the gospel accounts; however, it has been believed from the earliest days of the church that Mark's gospel is a summary of the teaching of the Apostle Peter. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea near the end of the 3rd Century, quoted Papias (c. AD 60-135) as writing:

The elder [the Apostle John] said this also: Mark, who became Peter's interpreter, wrote accurately, though not in order, all that he remembered of the things said or done by the Lord. For he had neither heard the Lord nor had been one of his followers, but afterwards, as I said, had followed Peter, who used to compose his discourses with a view to the needs of his hearers, but not as though he were drawing up a connected account of the Lord's sayings. So Mark made no mistake in thus recording some things just as he remembered them. For he was careful of this one thing, to omit none of the things he had heard and to make no untrue statements therein.

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