Mark's Gospels

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Mark begins his gospels describing Jesus’ public ministry. In contrast Luke and Matthew’s gospels starts with the birth of Jesus. By reading Mark’s gospels I think it is clear that Mark believes Jesus is the Son of God. This is proclaimed in Mark’s opening verse – he proclaims that Jesus, is the Christ, the son of God. (Mark 1:1). Many of the stories detailed in the different gospels have a very similar core story but are not exactly parallel. Mark writes that Jesus wanted His identity to be kept secret. Jesus would heal and drive out demons and in turn would ask those not to reveal what He had done. The other gospel authors do not exclaim to the same extent this directive from Jesus. Each gospel is different in style, length and emphasis

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