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Jesus didn’t leave a written trial for his life and preaching, his childhood or the family’s escape to Egypt and the time lived there. The first Christian groups received Jesus' teachings and narratives about his life through the twelve apostles and their disciples. Paul that wrote many years before the gospels, didn’t tell much about Jesus. Paul never saw Jesus in person, but he got a vision on his way from Jerusalem to Damascus.
There is a consensus among New Testament scholars that the Gospel of Mark is the oldest among the Gospels and that it was written around 70 AD, about forty years after the death of Jesus, followed by the Gospel of Matthew and Luke between 80-100 AD, and finally the Gospel of John, which was written between 100-110 AD. However, I found a book by Enoch Powell, “The evolution of the Gospel,” contradictory to these views with a different opinion. Enoch Powell claimed that Mathew, not Mark, is the oldest among the four canonical gospels.
The Gospel of Mark authenticity as the oldest among the four gospels has created a tendency with many researchers to adopt it as a reliable source, closer to the reality when the Gospels differ among them. The problem in the Gospel of Mark is recognized by different churches and Bible editions that the ending of the Gospel(Mark 8-16) added at a later period and that it is not found in the oldest manuscripts such as the Codex Sinaiticus and codex Vaticanus. Furthermore, a letter written by Clement of Alexandria, one of the church's early fathers, directed to Theodore of Palestine mentioned that a hidden version of Mark’s Gospel exists.
There are two main differences between the Gospel of Mark and the version mentioned by Clement in his letter: the first was a paragraph added in Chapter 10, paragraphs 34-35, and the second was added in Chapter 10, paragraph 46. But paragraph 34-35 adds the account of Jesus's resurrection of Lazarus, which was mentioned only by the Gospel of John. While the second paragraph 10:46 is an addition that when Jesus Christ came to Jericho, he refused to receive women who were presented to welcome him, they are the sister of the disciple whom Jesus loved, his mother, and Salome. But Salome's personality is not unknown to the Bible traditions, she is introduced in 15:40 and 16: 1. Likewise, the incident of not receiving his mother and brothers mentioned on more than one occasion in the Gospels, even in the Gospel of Mark that is in our hands, with a difference in some details, Mark (3: 31-35), Matthew (12: 46-50) and Luke (8: 19-21).
But why was the Gospel of Saint John different from other gospels by telling the story of Jesus' resurrection of Lazarus? Perhaps it is the same purpose to hide the story from the Gospel of St. Mark, which prompted John to mention it with an alteration to the details, even though the story was not mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke, who considered that the Gospel of Mark was the main source of the narratives. These differences can be summarized from us as follows: First, the secret Gospel of Mark does not mention the name of the boy Jesus Christ resurrected from death while John mentions his name, Lazarus. Second, the secret Bible speaks of one sister he did not name while John mentioned Martha and Mary. Third, in the secret Gospel of Mark, Jesus Christ is called "the son of David," while in the Gospel of John, the two sisters call him "Lord." Fourth, in the secret Gospel of Mark, Jesus Christ rolls the stone that was covering the entrance to the grave himself, while in the Gospel of John he asks the people in the place to do so. Fifth, Jesus approaching the grave in the secret Gospel of Mark is a miracle, as Lazarus shouts, and Christ extends his hand to him and brings him out, while in the Gospel of John, Jesus suffices with directing a loud voice, as Lazarus comes out of his grave. Despite the difference in some of the details that were the result of John's attempt to narrate the incident in a manner that makes it far from the misinterpretation of heresy Gnostic sects, there are common factors that the location of the accident is the village of Bethany and that there is a woman whose brother died and asked Jesus to resurrect and that there is a person he was dead, but he got out of the grave.
The secret Gospel of Mark omitted the story of Lazarus resurrection so that it will not be abused by heretical Christian sects, as Clement mentioned in his letter to the Reverend Theodore, in response to the latter questions about some of the teachings that spread in the region and are attributed to traditions mentioned in the Gospel of Mark. But the secret Gospel of Mark is not the only mystery in the Gospels that raises many questions, but rather there are many that I will talk about in the upcoming topics.
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There is a consensus among New Testament scholars that the Gospel of Mark is the oldest among the Gospels and that it was written around 70 AD, about forty years after the death of Jesus, followed by the Gospel of Matthew and Luke between 80-100 AD, and finally the Gospel of John, which was written between 100-110 AD. However, I found a book by Enoch Powell, “The evolution of the Gospel,” contradictory to these views with a different opinion. Enoch Powell claimed that Mathew, not Mark, is the oldest among the four canonical gospels.
The Gospel of Mark authenticity as the oldest among the four gospels has created a tendency with many researchers to adopt it as a reliable source, closer to the reality when the Gospels differ among them. The problem in the Gospel of Mark is recognized by different churches and Bible editions that the ending of the Gospel(Mark 8-16) added at a later period and that it is not found in the oldest manuscripts such as the Codex Sinaiticus and codex Vaticanus. Furthermore, a letter written by Clement of Alexandria, one of the church's early fathers, directed to Theodore of Palestine mentioned that a hidden version of Mark’s Gospel exists.
There are two main differences between the Gospel of Mark and the version mentioned by Clement in his letter: the first was a paragraph added in Chapter 10, paragraphs 34-35, and the second was added in Chapter 10, paragraph 46. But paragraph 34-35 adds the account of Jesus's resurrection of Lazarus, which was mentioned only by the Gospel of John. While the second paragraph 10:46 is an addition that when Jesus Christ came to Jericho, he refused to receive women who were presented to welcome him, they are the sister of the disciple whom Jesus loved, his mother, and Salome. But Salome's personality is not unknown to the Bible traditions, she is introduced in 15:40 and 16: 1. Likewise, the incident of not receiving his mother and brothers mentioned on more than one occasion in the Gospels, even in the Gospel of Mark that is in our hands, with a difference in some details, Mark (3: 31-35), Matthew (12: 46-50) and Luke (8: 19-21).
But why was the Gospel of Saint John different from other gospels by telling the story of Jesus' resurrection of Lazarus? Perhaps it is the same purpose to hide the story from the Gospel of St. Mark, which prompted John to mention it with an alteration to the details, even though the story was not mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke, who considered that the Gospel of Mark was the main source of the narratives. These differences can be summarized from us as follows: First, the secret Gospel of Mark does not mention the name of the boy Jesus Christ resurrected from death while John mentions his name, Lazarus. Second, the secret Bible speaks of one sister he did not name while John mentioned Martha and Mary. Third, in the secret Gospel of Mark, Jesus Christ is called "the son of David," while in the Gospel of John, the two sisters call him "Lord." Fourth, in the secret Gospel of Mark, Jesus Christ rolls the stone that was covering the entrance to the grave himself, while in the Gospel of John he asks the people in the place to do so. Fifth, Jesus approaching the grave in the secret Gospel of Mark is a miracle, as Lazarus shouts, and Christ extends his hand to him and brings him out, while in the Gospel of John, Jesus suffices with directing a loud voice, as Lazarus comes out of his grave. Despite the difference in some of the details that were the result of John's attempt to narrate the incident in a manner that makes it far from the misinterpretation of heresy Gnostic sects, there are common factors that the location of the accident is the village of Bethany and that there is a woman whose brother died and asked Jesus to resurrect and that there is a person he was dead, but he got out of the grave.
The secret Gospel of Mark omitted the story of Lazarus resurrection so that it will not be abused by heretical Christian sects, as Clement mentioned in his letter to the Reverend Theodore, in response to the latter questions about some of the teachings that spread in the region and are attributed to traditions mentioned in the Gospel of Mark. But the secret Gospel of Mark is not the only mystery in the Gospels that raises many questions, but rather there are many that I will talk about in the upcoming topics.
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