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::''This is a page about the author. For the Gospel, see [[Gospel of Mark]]''.

::''This is a page about the author. For Mark's Gospel, see [[Gospel of Mark]]''.

'''Mark''' was the eyewitness author of the [[Gospel of Mark]], and outsider to the group of [[the Apostles]].  Though placed second in the [[New Testament]] due to its incompleteness,<ref>The original Gospel of Mark lacks any account of Jesus's background or the [[Resurrection]], neither of which the non-Apostle Mark would have known anything about.</ref> the Gospel of Mark was probably the first Gospel written, probably without authorization by the [[Apostles]].  It was written in [[Greek]] in a simple, forceful style.  As a young boy, Mark was almost certainly an eyewitness to the arrest of [[Jesus]], as described in Mark 14:51-52.  Mark was probably also the boy mentioned at John 6:8-9 ("One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, *said to Him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many people?”).<ref>[[NASB]] version.</ref>

'''Mark''' was the eyewitness author of the [[Gospel of Mark]], and outsider to the group of [[the Apostles]].  Though placed second in the [[New Testament]] due to its incompleteness,<ref>The original Gospel of Mark lacks any account of Jesus's background or the [[Resurrection]], neither of which the non-Apostle Mark would have known anything about.</ref> the Gospel of Mark was probably the first Gospel written, probably without authorization by the [[Apostles]].  It was written in [[Greek]] in a simple, forceful style.  As a young boy, Mark was almost certainly an eyewitness to the arrest of [[Jesus]], as described in Mark 14:51-52.  Mark was probably also the boy mentioned at John 6:8-9 ("One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, *said to Him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many people?”).<ref>[[NASB]] version.</ref>