What makes the Gospel of Mark different?
The Gospel of Mark is brief and condensed than the others while Matthew and Luke go into great detail. Mark omits many things of particular interest to the Jews, such as the genealogy and the childhood of Jesus, quotations from the prophets, &c.; and it inserts occasionally explanations of Jewish manners and customs, as if it were written for circulation among a foreign people. As Mark went to Rome, and spent some time there, it has been supposed that his work was written there, and intended for that people.[2] This Gospel records more of the miracles than of the discourses of our Lord, and though in many things it relates the same things as the Gospel according to St. Matthew, we may reap advantages from reviewing the same events, placed by each of the evangelists in that point of view which most affected his own mind.[3] So let us begin this exciting study in the Gospel of Mark: Mark 1:1-3 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; As it is written in the prophets,
