Excerpt from The Gospel According to Saint Mark The house apparently was a large one, capable of hold ing at least a considerable section of the Christian com munity, and tradition tells us that St. Mark's family was fairly wealthy. Evidently St. Mark was already a person of some importance in the Christian community, and this early connection with St. Peter is not without its force and meaning. That St. Peter received St. Mark into the Church 18 gathered from the fact that m his first Epistle (1 Pet. V. 13) he speaks of him as my son Mark, for such IS the ordinary usage of Holy Scripture (ep. I Cor. Iv. 2 Cor. Vi. 13; Gal. Iv. 19; 1 Tim. I. 2; 1 Jn. Ii. I, He 1s mentioned altogether eight times in the New Testament (acts xii. 12, 25; xv. 37, 39; C01. Iv. 10; Philem. 24; 2 Tim. Iv. 11; 1 Pet. V. Some have thought that he is the man carry ing a pitcher of water (mk. Xiv. Who met the two disciples on their way to prepare the Pasch for our Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.