Welcome back to our Bible study on the Gospel of Mark.

Last time we talked about who Mark is.

Who is this evangelist who wrote the Gospel of Mark?

And we found out that Mark has deep connections.

They go all the way back as we saw in Acts chapter 12, verse 12, to Peter.

And we find John Mark at the beginning of the story of the apostles evangelizing with Peter and Mark

together at Mark's house with his mother Mary, where the Christians are gathered together.

And then we find that tradition brings Peter and Mark together again working together in Rome,

preaching the gospel, evangelizing,

and of course, Mark writes that down in the gospel. So Mark's gospel, in a sense, as the early

church father said, is Peter's gospel. And so Peter is the eyewitness. And that's what tradition says,

but there's been an interesting discovery in modern scholarship

in the last decade by a great historian from England, Richard Bachham.

And Richard Bachham wrote a book that was very significant called Jesus and the eyewitnesses,

The Gospels as Eyewitness testimony.

When you're an eyewitness, you describe things in a very granular, particular way.

Versus, if you're not an eyewitness and you're talking about an event,

you talk about the significance of the event, but you do lack details.

And what Baccombe does is he shows that the Gospels, especially Peter, Mark's Gospel, has this

eyewitness flavor to it.

And it's Peters.

Now one of the fascinating things he discovers as he studies Greek writing, people like Greek

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