John called Mark. Useful for the ministry. John Mark. Evangelist Mark. Good News
Our mistakes are good teachers. Their consequences teach us a bitter but clear lesson. Those who learn from their mistakes become wiser. John Mark was a good student who only needed a little time and courage.
Mark was glad to do good, but it was difficult for him to remain firm. In his Gospel, Mark speaks of a young man who, when Jesus was arrested, fled in such fear that he left his clothes. It was probably Mark himself. His fleeing tendency manifested itself again when Paul and Barnabas took him as helpers on their first missionary journey. At the second stop, Mark left them and returned to Jerusalem. This was a difficult experience for Paul. Two years later, in preparation for the second missionary journey, Barnabas again offered to take Mark with him, but Paul refused. As a result, their team was divided. Barnabas took Mark with him, and Paul chose Silas. Barnabas turned out to be more lenient towards Mark, and the young man rewarded his patience. Paul and Mark later reunited, and the older apostle became a close friend of the young disciple.
Mark was a good companion to the three leaders of the early Church — Barnabas, Paul, and Peter. Apparently, the events in the Gospel of Mark are described mainly from the words of Peter. The fact that Mark was the helper of the apostles allowed him to learn a lot. He again and again heard Peter's stories about the years he spent with Jesus, and was one of the first to write these stories down.
Barnabas played a key role in Mark's life. He supported him despite his weaknesses and patiently encouraged him. Mark's example encourages us to learn from our mistakes and value the patience of others. Is there also in your life Barnabas, whom you must thank for the fact that he supported you in due time?
Weaknesses and mistakes:
Probably the young man who fled in panic when Jesus was arrested
- For some unknown reason, left Paul and Barnabas during the first missionary journey
Lessons from his life:
Maturity of character usually comes with time and after certain mistakes.
- Errors are not as significant as the conclusions that we can draw from them
- The success of our life is determined not by what we have achieved, but by what we have been able to overcome for this
- A person's life can change if he is supported in time
Basic information:
Location - Jerusalem
- Lesson - student; missionary; the author of the Gospel; companion of the apostles
- Relatives - mother Maria; uncle barnabas
- Contemporaries - Peter, Paul, Timothy, Luke, Sila
Key Verse:
"I was left with Luke alone. Take Mark and bring him with you, he helps me well in my ministry." (2 Tim.4: 11)
apostle from 70, bishop of Alexandria, Apolloniad, Babylon, holy martyr (Sc. 63), was born in Jerusalem, his mother's house adjoined in the Garden of Gethsemane, in which Jesus Christ prayed before he was captured. The Gospel of Mark describes a young man who followed the Lord and the soldiers who led Him. The ancient church tradition reveres under this, not named in the Gospel, the young men of the author himself - the Evangelist Mark. St. Mark was an associate of the app. Peter, Paul and Barnabas, the latter was a nephew. Together with them he passed, preaching the word of Truth, Seleucia (in Syria), Fr. Cyprus, Asia Minor and reached Rome. From Rome, according to the word of ap. Peter, St. Mark went to Egypt where he founded the Christian Church. Then, having visited several more countries, he returned to Rome, finding there ap. Paul imprisoned. There, as church tradition says, St. Mark wrote his Gospel, which was included in the New Testament. From Rome ap. Mark retired to Egypt again. In Alexandria, the Egyptian capital, he founded a Christian school, which, centuries later, raised the famous Church Fathers. After making several more evangelistic journeys, the apostle returned to Alexandria, where he was martyred. During the service he was captured by the pagans, imprisoned, and then beaten to death. Body ap. Mark was buried in Alexandria. Later St. the relics of the evangelist were transferred to Venice, which venerates St. apostle as his first educator. According to the ancient iconographic tradition, St. The mark corresponds to the symbol of the lion, about which it is written in the "Revelation" of St. John the Theologian.
Memory ap. and the gospel. The mark is celebrated on January 4/17, April 25 / May 8, September 27 / October 10, October 30 / November 12.
Source: Encyclopedia "Russian Civilization"
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Brockhaus Bible Encyclopedia
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Russian encyclopedia
- - one of the four evangelists, Jewish by origin, but still a young man joined the community of Christians, since his mother Mary was one of the ardent followers of Christ and her house was a meeting place for believers in Him ...
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Euphron
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Spelling dictionary of the Russian language
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None of the evangelists talk about this episode anymore, and it really looks a bit too comical at such a tragic moment. It should have been included only if it was especially important to the author, and most likely, Mark is talking about himself here. He was not one of the twelve apostles, but he also followed Jesus, perhaps then out of simple curiosity. He was not present at the Last Supper, but he was somewhere nearby, probably already asleep. I heard a noise, realized that something special was happening, jumped up, wrapped myself in a blanket that I could find under my arm, and ran to look - and there it was! So I had to run away in disgrace.
This completely unheroic episode emphasizes that the future great apostles were originally ... but literally anything. If they decided to follow Jesus, their life could change in one moment, but they themselves did not change so quickly, and this curious, but fearful young man did not immediately become that courageous and self-confident preacher of Christ, whom the Church venerates in the person of the Apostle Brand.
What else do we know about him? Bit by bit, you can gather some information from other books of the New Testament. In the Epistle to the Colossians, he is mentioned as the nephew of another apostle, Barnabas, and Peter in his 1st Epistle calls him his son. Apparently, the relationship with Barnabas was physical, and with Peter - spiritual, as he called his closest student at that time.
The most interesting reference to Mark is found in the book of Acts. When Peter was released from prison in Jerusalem, he came "to the house of Mary, mother of John, called Mark, where many gathered and prayed." So this young man lived in his mother's house in Jerusalem, and this house served from the very beginning as a meeting place for the early Christians. Or maybe on the night before the crucifixion he just slipped out of it, wrapped in a veil ...
But why does he have two names? In those days, this was not uncommon: a young Pharisee named Saul (that is, Saul) would also later be called by the Roman name Paul. In the same way, a Jewish youth with a common name John took a different common name, only Roman - apparently, it was easier to communicate with non-Jews this way. In about the same way, the ancient Russian princes, in addition to the Slavic names, had Christian ones under which they were baptized - Yaroslav the Wise, for example, was George in baptism.
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The son of a certain Mary, whose home was a place of prayer meetings for the apostles and members of the Jerusalem Church. The Apostle Peter came to her house after his miraculous release from prison (see St. Peter's Verigi). Leaving Jerusalem Barnabas and Paul took Mark-John with them. Acts records the participation of Mark-John in the preaching at Salamis in Cyprus (Acts). At the same time, on the basis of the expression "for service" (διακονια) used in the text, it is assumed that John Mark was ordained a deacon. When Paul and his companions left Cyprus and went to Pamphylia, Mark separated from them and went to Jerusalem (Acts)). Acts chapter 15 describes how Mark caused the separation of Paul and Barnabas:
John Chrysostom notes that Mark would have been accepted without Paul's instructions, but “ The apostle expresses the desire that they do this with great zeal, and thereby shows that this man (Mark) was a great man". At the same time, the nature of Paul's orders about Mark-John remains unknown. In his later epistles, Paul calls Mark his collaborator (Flm.), And in the second epistle to Timothy writes - "Take Mark and bring him with you, for I need him for my ministry." (2 Tim.).
The place of preaching of Barnabas and Mark-John after their separation from Paul remains unknown. The Acta sanctorum contains apocryphal legends from the "Periods" (travels) of Barnabas, which were allegedly composed by Mark-John. According to legend, Mark-John was in Vivlos (in Phenicia, Byblos (Vivlos) or Ebal was in the north of Palestine, at the Mediterranean Sea, between Beirut and Tripol). In the Chetya Minea of \u200b\u200bDimitri of Rostov it is said about him: “ the holy Apostle Mark, who was called John, was set up by the apostles in Babylon and zealously labored in the preaching of the Gospel. He achieved such boldness towards God that his very shadow healed the sick.". The year of the death of the Apostle Mark-John is unknown; there is an opinion that he was buried in Ephesus.
The overwhelming majority of modern researchers are convinced that all references to Mark and John, called Mark, in the New Testament refer to the same person. The unreliable distinction between the Evangelist Mark and Mark-John (as well as another Mark, included in one of the variants of the list of 70 apostles) arose only in the late church tradition.
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Mark-Joa? Nn (Greek. ?????? ) - an apostle from seventy, nephew of the apostle Barnabas and a disciple of the apostle Paul.
Mark, called John, is mentioned in the Apostolic Acts (Acts) and Acts. ). He was a resident of Jerusalem, the son of a certain Mary, whose home was a place of prayer meetings for the apostles and members of the Jerusalem church. The Apostle Peter came to her house after his miraculous release from prison (see St. Peter's Verigi). Leaving Jerusalem Barnabas and Paul took Mark-John with them. Acts records the participation of Mark-John in the preaching at Salamis in Cyprus (Acts). At the same time, on the basis of the expression “for service” (????????) used in the text, it is assumed that John Mark was ordained a deacon. When Paul and his companions searched for Cyprus and went to Pamphylia, Mark separated from them and went to Jerusalem (Acts)). Acts chapter 15 describes how Mark caused the separation of Paul and Barnabas:
John Chrysostom positively assesses this division of the apostles: “ For what after each of them separately undertook useful, this cannot be done by the very thing that they would have been together. And this strife was of great benefit to Mark. Paul's severity enlightened him, but the kindness of Barnabas made him not stay; so the strife that was between them achieves one goal - benefit. Seeing that Paul decided to leave him, Mark was very afraid and condemned himself, and seeing that Barnabas was so disposed towards him, Mark loved him; thus the dissension of the teachers corrected the disciple; he was so far from being seduced by her. For if they did it for their own honor, then of course he (John Mark) could be tempted; but since they did this for his salvation and solely in order to show how wise the counsel (of God) who bestowed such honor upon him is, then what is reprehensible here". Despite this, Paul treated Mark well, as evidenced by his letter to the Colossians:
John Chrysostom notes that Mark would have been accepted without Paul's instructions, but “ The apostle expresses the desire that they do this with great zeal, and thereby shows that this man (Mark) was a great man". At the same time, the nature of Paul's orders about Mark-John remains unknown. In his later epistles, Paul calls Mark his collaborator (Flm.), And in the second epistle to Timothy writes - "Take Mark and bring him with you, for I need him for my ministry." (2 Tim.).
The place of preaching of Barnabas and Mark-John after their separation from Paul remains unknown. The Acta sanctorum contains apocryphal legends from the "Periods" (travels) of Barnabas, which were allegedly composed by Mark-John. According to legend, Mark-John was in Vivlos (in Phenicia, Byblos (Vivlos) or Ebal was in the north of Palestine, at the Mediterranean Sea, between Beirut and Tripol). In the Chetya Minea of \u200b\u200bDimitri of Rostov it is said about him: “ the holy Apostle Mark, who was called John, was set up by the apostles in Babylon and zealously labored in the preaching of the Gospel. He achieved such boldness towards God that his very shadow healed the sick.". The year of the death of the Apostle Mark-John is unknown, there is an opinion that he was buried in Ephesus.
IN orthodox Church the memory of Mark-John is celebrated on October 10 (September 27, old style) together with the Apostle Zina and on January 17 (January 4, old style) on the day of the Council of the Apostles of seventy, in the Catholic Church - September 27.
The overwhelming majority of modern researchers are convinced that all references to Mark and John, called Mark, in the New Testament refer to the same person. The unreliable distinction between the Evangelist Mark and Mark-John (as well as another Mark, included in one of the variants of the list of 70 apostles) arose only in the late church tradition.
