Hi everyone. Welcome to this special bonus episode of the Logical Bible Study Gospel Exegesis

podcast. In this episode, I want to talk a bit about the gospel of

Mark in general. So this will serve as a bit of an introduction to the gospel of Mark because we're

about to enter a time in the church's liturgical calendar where we're going to hear a lot from

the gospel of Mark, particularly on weekdays. And this podcast will cover

the Gospel of Mark a lot as well. So it's always good when you're about to do a big chunk

of a certain book of the Bible to have a look at the background of the book. So we know who the

author is, what they're trying to do, and all those kinds of things. So this is a bit of a

special bonus episode, and hopefully it helps you learn a bit about Mark who he was and what he's up

to in his gospel. So firstly, let's talk a bit about when you're going to hear from the

gospel of Mark in the church's liturgical year.

So on weekdays, it's read semi-continuously. So firstly, what's the term semi-continuously mean?

It means it basically goes chronologically, but it occasionally leaves some bits out. So, for example,

you might hear from Mark chapter three verses 1 to 10 on one day. for example, you might hear from Mark chapter 3

verses 1 to 10 on one day. The next day you might hear from verses 11 to 20. And then the church

might deliberately leave out a few verses. So the next day you'll start at verse 24 and skips

verses 21 to 23. So that's what's meant by semi-continuously. It goes through chronologically

from start to finish, though it occasionally leaves bits out. And that's because the church

doesn't have time to do literally every word of every gospel throughout the year. So it has to make

some choices about parts that it's going to leave out. Usually the church leaves

out parts that aren't particularly, or you can't really make a sermon from them. There's not a

whole lot of teaching in a certain passage, perhaps. So on weekdays, it's read semi-continuously

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