Why is the Gospel of Mark important, in early Christianity?
“Mark’s is the first of the written gospels. It’s really the one that establishes… the life of Jesus as a story form. It develops a narrative from his early career, through …the main points of his life and culminat[es] in his death. And, as such, it sets the pattern for all the later gospel traditions. We know that both Matthew and Luke used Mark, as a source in their composition and it’s also probable that even John knew something of Mark in tradition. So, Mark is really the one that sets the stage for all the later Christian gospel writings.” The Romans were no thinking people like the philosophers of Greece, they were barbaric warriors and wanted to expand their land by all possible means – like the Pope still wants – and understood the advantages there were in BLESSED POWER of a MONOTHEISTIC GOD – have a monopoly, no competition, nobody to show tolerance towards, just kill when met with resistence. Konstantin said he had been promised Victory by the Christian God, in the battle
