Passages From The Gospels Of Mark & Matthew Essay

While both books of Mark and Matthew portray Peter as one of the most important followers of Jesus, Mark seems to emphasize Jesus' spiritual career unlike the broad, more in-depth pursuit of Jesus' life that Matthew embellishes on. As both Jesus' student and friend, Peter is the one disciple most commonly referred to in the stories. Yet the two passages seem to draw different pictures of Jesus' distinguished disciple. In Matthew, Peter seems to play a larger role in Jesus' teachings and seems more significant to Jesus throughout the book. In Mark, he is still important, but to a lesser extent in the eyes of the author. Mark leaves Peter out of a few of the stories altogether and only touches

Scholars believe that it is unlikely that one of the Twelve wrote Matthew Gospel because of the description. "The manner in which Matthew presents his record of Jesus ancestors is typical of his use of the Hebrew bible and his purpose is not only to establish Jesus messianic credentials by right of descent from Abraham and David, but also to present Jesus birth as the climax of Israelite history" (Harris, 2014, pp. 166). Most of these scriptures in Matthew Gospel is an extension to the Gospel of Mark. "Matthew retains the apocalyptic themes found in Mark, but he significantly modifies them" (Harris, 2014, pp. 194). Due to the description, we can conclude a time and place for Matthew Gospel. Around 80 ce at least a decade after the destruction

The day before Good Friday on The Colbert Report Bart Ehrman attempted to demonstrate that the Gospels of Mark and Luke stand in hopeless contradictions to one another with respect to the death of Jesus Christ.[1] Ironically, Tom Krattenmaker notes Ehrman’s claims on this same issue in USA Today on April 13th, 2009.[2] Ehrman makes the following charge: “In Mark’s Gospel, for example, Jesus goes to His death in deep agony, over what’s happening to him, and doesn’t seem to understand why it’s happening to Him.” Conversely, says, Ehrman, “When you read Luke’s Gospel, He’s not in agony at all.”[3]

In this paper, I am writing about the Gospel of Mark. The Gospel of Mark is the shortest Gospel, but is a really cool one. It covers a lot of key events that happened during Jesus’ lifetime. After reading the chapters, we pointed out things that stood out to us, which we thought were strange or interesting. We also pointed out spiritual lessons that taught us about our faith. We also wrote down questions that we had about the material.

When looking in the Gospel of Matthew 15:21-28 and the Gospel of Mark 7:24-30 one can find that each of these pieces of their respective gospels have both some similarities and differences. There is evidence of overlap between these two which are quite easy to find whilst one is reading the sections of each. There also are points in which these two accounts diverge from one another by either telling a certain part of the other gospel in a different way, removing content from one of the other gospels, or adding something that may not have been referenced or described in the other. Either way these accounts from Matthew and Mark both have connections to each other even if not visible on the surface.

This is a summary of a No Travel Seminar on a Study of the Gospel of Matthew. The seminar was lead by Dr. John Dunaway who is a professor at NTS and has served as a pastor for over 50 years. After his brief self-introduction, he began his presentation with an overview of the Gospel of Matthew, followed by a more elaborated narrative summarizing the gospel, and he finished with brief closing remarks. Throughout this enthusiastic presentation, Dr. Dunaway made reference to remarks by multiple prominent commentators, which added substance to his narrative, even though none were explicitly stated upfront.

Honors 151 – Exam 2 The gospels are meant to serve as a recollection of Jesus’ life and ministry. Although they are placed together at the beginning of the New Testament, the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John differ from one another. Matthew and Luke begin with the accounts of Jesus’ conception and birth, while Mark and John introduce us to an older Jesus prophesized by John the Baptist.

The church is in need of major renovation when it comes to making disciples. The concept of making disciples to follow the Lord Jesus Christ seems completely foreign to the church today. In order to achieve the desired goal of making disciples for Christ, training others to go out and proclaim gospel, and helping others to train people to disciple one another, one needs to go back to foundation of the Word of God. It is in God’s Word where multiple examples are found of how to make disciples to follow Jesus Christ. It is my desire to see more people in the church have a passion for discipleship. Therefore, this paper will examine in detail how to make disciples in a ministry context. This will be accomplished by examining the 5 V’s of discipleship—vision, values, views, vehicles, and verifiers. It is my purpose to examine each area in order to have a detailed plan of discipleship that will be used in my own ministry context to make disciples for Christ. I hope that this plan can and will be used to train others in the church to make disciples, and disciple one another, for the glory of God.

This particular passage is important as it sets the tone for the whole gospel. By opening with this story, Mark establishes from the beginning that Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God. This demonstrates an important message conveyed throughout the gospel, the idea that in order for someone to understand the story, what Jesus was sent for and what God is trying to do, one must first understand who Jesus is and why he is the Messiah. This information is pivotal to understanding the rest of the story as this idea is highlighted in key scenes throughout Mark's gospel, for instance the scene where Jesus turns to his disciples and asks them who they think He is. The fact that this is the opening scene in Mark's Gospel is fitting as the Christian

The Gospel of Mark is one of the synoptic Gospels that presents Jesus of Nazareth as a suffering servant. Moreover, the book of Mark focuses and emphasizes on the works, deeds sacrifice and service of Jesus more than His teaching. Additionally, Mark spotlights the human-side of Jesus more than the other Gospels. In fact, two of the major theological themes in the Gospel of Mark are Christ’s human emotions and His human limitations. The Gospel of Mark revealed Christ’s human emotions in Mark 1:41, when Jesus was moved with

After reading the Gospel of Mark, I was most surprised when Jesus wanted the people to keep some of His healings a secret. For example, in Mark 5:21-43, Jesus brings a girl back to life. This girl had just died minutes before Jesus arrived, but when He got there He said, “the child is not dead but asleep” (Mark 5:39). After she was revived, Jesus gave strict orders to the spectators to not let anyone know about this. Another example where Jesus keeps His healing a secret is in Mark 3:7. He had healed many people, but the crowd was getting larger and larger so He asked his disciples to get a boat for Him. The people who had been possessed by impure spirits fell on the ground before him and cried, “you are the Son of God.” Again,

Each of the four Gospels contains points in ecclesiology. In the Great Commission, Jesus’ last instruction to the Apostles is to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching people (Matthew 28:19-20). For Jesus’ mission to continue and for his Church to grow, discipleship is necessary. Discipleship is a prominent theme in all four Gospels, for purposes of this essay, only the Gospels of John and Luke-Acts will be analyzed. The similarities regarding discipleship in these Gospels include images of the net and fishing, and the sheep/shepherd/sheepfold. The differences include the preparing of the Twelve to carry on Jesus' ministry in Luke, and service to the community and passing of authority in John's Gospel.

The hypotheses on how this Gospel originated are many and varied. The continuity of the actual message of the story of the life of Jesus seems, it would be generally agreed, to hinge on the Gospel of Mark being a source for the other Synoptic gospels at least. Much argument has also gone on about the place and time of writing of Mark and how this influences the traditioning or the handing on of the story. How the original written version came to be from the oral process is also a cause for the concern as regards continuity of the story. Was it faithfully translated?

Question: Consider the figure of Jesus as described in the Gospel of Mark. Who is Jesus, for Mark?

This research assignment aims to analyse and interpret an influential part of the New Testament – Mark’s Gospel. An analysis of Mark and his community will be discussed as well as interpreting Jesus’ teachings and his significant theme of Discipleship as it was then and in present society.