Levite living at the time of the New Testament

Mark

Acts 12:12, 25; 13:13; 15:37–39; Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:11; 1 Peter 5:13

John Mark, the son of a Mary whose house in Jerusalem was a meeting place for the believers (Acts 12:12), and a cousin of Barnabas (Colossians 4:10). He went with Paul and Barnabas on the first journey, but left them at Perga and went home (Acts 12:25; 13:13). Paul refused to take him on the second journey, and the quarrel parted Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:36–40). Later he was with Paul in Rome, and Paul told Timothy, “Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service” (Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:11). Peter calls him “Mark, my son” (1 Peter 5:13), and the oldest tradition says he wrote his Gospel from Peter’s preaching.

His mother's house in Jerusalem was a meeting place of the church (Acts 12:12); he may be the young man who fled at Jesus' arrest (Mark 14:51–52). He left Paul and Barnabas early on the first journey, but later Paul called him useful (2 Timothy 4:11), and Peter called him his son (1 Peter 5:13). Traditionally the author of Mark's Gospel. Coptic tradition says he founded the church of Alexandria and was martyred there in AD 68; Jerome gives AD 62. Both ends of the bar are estimates.

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