The Definition of the word Mark

Mark

The evangelist; John whose surname was Mark" (Acts 12:12, 25)." "Mark (Marcus, Col. 4:10, etc.) was his Roman name, which" gradually came to supersede his Jewish name John. He is called "John in Acts 13:5, 13, and Mark in 15:39, 2 Tim. 4:11, etc." "He was the son of Mary, a woman apparently of some means and "influence, and was probably born in Jerusalem, where his mother" resided (Acts 12:12). Of his father we know nothing. He was cousin of Barnabas (Col. 4:10). It was in his mother's house "that Peter found "many gathered together praying" when he was" released from prison; and it is probable that it was here that "he was converted by Peter, who calls him his "son" (1 Pet." "5:13). It is probable that the "young man" spoken of in Mark" "14:51, 52 was Mark himself. He is first mentioned in Acts 12:25." He went with Paul and Barnabas on their first journey (about "A.D. 47) as their "minister," but from some cause turned back" when they reached Perga in Pamphylia (Acts 12:25; 13:13). Three "years afterwards a "sharp contention" arose between Paul and" "Barnabas (15:36-40), because Paul would not take Mark with him." "He, however, was evidently at length reconciled to the apostle," for he was with him in his first imprisonment at Rome (Col. 4:10; Philemon 1:24). At a later period he was with Peter in "Babylon (1 Pet. 5:13), then, and for some centuries afterwards," one of the chief seats of Jewish learning; and he was with Timothy in Ephesus when Paul wrote him during his second imprisonment (2 Tim. 4:11). He then disappears from view.