How might Mark have come to write one of the four Gospels?
The Temple authorities were about to arrest Jesus. He needed a large private room to celebrate the Passover with his twelve disciples. He directed two of his disciples to meet a man carrying water. This was usually women's work. Mark's parents might have provided this Upper Room in their home.
Mark 14: 12-17
Could this be the same man who may have secretly followed Jesus and His disciples from that Upper Room to the Garden where he was arrested? Was he listening outside that Upper Room that whole evening?
Mark 14: 50-52
Which of the disciples might have helped Mark write this Gospel several decades after the Resurrection?
Is Mark the same as John Mark in Acts 12: 25, who joined Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey? He left them and went back home in Acts 13: 13. In Acts 15: 37 Barnabas determined to give him another chance, and that's where Paul chose another partner for his second mission trip. Mark must have redeemed himself because later Paul asked for him to come to him "for he is profitable to me in the ministry,"
II Timothy 4: 11
He who stepped away from the plow in the furrow, came back to complete this unique perspective for us.
