Talk:Mark the Evangelist

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Contents 1 Statement 2 Article needs cleanup 3 Who was he? 4 Mark is Peter's son? 5 Sources for "Biblical and traditional information" section 6 Authorship Claims 7 Cleanup of Biblical and traditional information 2nd paragraph 8 Separation from Paul and his Gospel 9 Repairing the Vandalism (Blanking) of the Biblical and traditional information section

[edit] Statement

I have recently edited the page due to a minor incorrect statemenr that results in confusion. Barnabas and Mark did not "stay" they seperated From Paul who took Silas with him. Barnabas and Mark left and went to Cyprus. Kyle.Mullaney 06:12, 11 November 2005 (UTC)Kyle

the exact statement that was edited out was the following "but was left behind (and Barnabas stayed too) for the second, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles."

[edit] Article needs cleanup

The article on Mark the Evanelist has numerous errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., and needs to be cleaned up. I don't know how to create this "flag" so I'm noting it here. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 139.68.4.4 (talk • contribs) .

It seems to me that the article was rather good until this edit, and since then there's been much reinventing the wheel to get it to the current form. I would normally try to merge the two versions together, but I'm so much so not an expert on this that I'm not comfortable doing that here. — Laura Scudder ☎ 16:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I went back to that version and merged in just the very end of it, mainly the external links and the succession box. I didn't take time to go through all the edits from that version, but I suspect there's more that would be worth merging back in. Wesley 16:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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Noted that the page had been vandalised, tried to correct the problem, but i can't find all the vandal's edits. at least one reference link is fubar at this time.D.C.Rigate 19:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Think I got them all now D.C.Rigate 19:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Who was he?

There is no mention of his native tongue, where he was born or his birth name. Was it the Roman Marcus??? Further, the fact box states that he died in AD 68 (which is for anyone who cares, was the year of the four Caesars), but in the text of the article, it states that "In AD 67 they killed him" So did he die in 68 or 67? Naerhu 06:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mark is Peter's son?

1 Pet. 5: 13

The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.

[edit] Sources for "Biblical and traditional information" section

I have references for a lot of the "Biblical and traditional information" section, but they are all from Catholic biblical commentary. I suppose this is because they are Catholic traditions in some parts of the world. My sources are The Navarre Bible: St Mark and The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Is my footnoting the Catholic traditions using Catholic sources a POV problem? After all they are Catholic traditions. Jason3777 22:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm going ahead and putting the references I can find into the Biblical and traditional information section. The traditions I am referencing are Catholic, so I don't think there is a NPOV problem with using Catholic sources to reference Catholic traditions in this section of the article. Also, it says at the top of the page "This article needs additional references or sources for verification." Jason3777 01:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Authorship Claims

Removed authorship claims in the Biblical and traditional information section because they are discussed in the Epistle articles and to make the sentence more NPOV. I also replaced the semicolons with commas since I removed the parentheses. Jason3777 14:41, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup of Biblical and traditional information 2nd paragraph

I'm going to do a clean up of the second paragraph. I don't intend to do a major edit (although I will save it as such) I want to make it more readable and NPOV (most of the NPOV stuff is already done - see above). Plus I intend to add footnotes. I will do my best to leave the meaning of the paragraph unaltered. If anyone has a problem with this please let me know, because I've got my books stacked around me, and want to get it done as soon as possible. I have done research on this topic before, but don't worry, I have no original information to add, just the references. Jason3777 18:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Separation from Paul and his Gospel

I've cn tagged the following sentence: "Ironically, this separation helped bring about the creation of the Gospel of Mark."

If it is not cited or explained in some way, I'll deleted it after at least 24h. I can't find a source for this, and fail to see 1) how the causality flowed, or 2) how it would be ironic. 22:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Am deleting it shortly. Carl.bunderson (talk) 05:57, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Repairing the Vandalism (Blanking) of the Biblical and traditional information section

User:209.250.183.90 blanked the entire Biblical and traditional information section on 11:38 April 9, 2008. The article requested references and with this blanking went from 6 references to 1. No reason was given for this large removal of content, so I have restored it. Jason3777 (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)