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This week on the Word of the Lord Endorse Forever, we move further in Second Timothy with chapters

1, 2, and 3 with mercy on that day, remember Jesus Christ not to quarrel,

patiently enduring and in the last days. Join me, Pastor Will Whedon, for the Word of the Lord

Endores Forever, your daily 15-minute verse-by-verse Bible study on demand. Listen at the wordendors.org or your favorite podcast

provider.

This is the shortest gospel. It moves quickly. It has a lot of dynamic words in it, like immediately,

repeated over and over again. Who is the author of the gospel according to Mark? The church remembers him on the 25th of April. We will

remember him on this Thursday. Joining us to do so, Dr. David Lewis, he's Associate Professor of

Exegetical Theology and the Dr. Jack Dean Kingsbury Professor of New Testament at Concordia

Seminary St. Louis. Dr. Lewis, welcome back.

Thank you, Todd. It's great to be back.

Why does the church refer to him as the evangelist?

Oh, the church refers to Mark as the evangelist because he produced a gospel, which is an account of our Lord's ministry,

reaching its conclusion and his suffering,

death, and resurrection in Jerusalem.

And so the four evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors of the four canonical gospels that the church has been using probably early at the end of the first century, definitely by the beginning of

the second century AD, these four gospels were recognized and used by the church as scripture.

So O'Angelion means gospel, and it is a count I'd like to say of how God has intervened for the sake of his fallen creation,

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