- verses
- 10
- first named
- Acts 12:12
- last named
- 1 Peter 5:13
- period
- the New Testament
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Mark?
Mark, also known as John Mark, was a prominent figure in the early Christian church. He was the son of Mary, whose house in Jerusalem served as a meeting place for the believers (Act.12.12). Mark was also the cousin of Barnabas (Col.4.10) and accompanied Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey (Act.12.25; 13.5). However, he left them at Perga and returned to Jerusalem (Act.13.13), which later caused a disagreement between Paul and Barnabas (Act.15.37-39). Despite this, Mark remained active in ministry, as evidenced by Paul's later references to him as a fellow worker (Phm.1.24; 2Ti.4.11). He also worked closely with Peter, who referred to him as "my son Mark" (1Pe.5.13). Tradition holds that Mark wrote the Gospel that bears his name based on Peter's teachings, making it one of the earliest written accounts of Jesus' life and ministry.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 14 are drawn. All 14 are listed below.
Associated with
Child of
- husband of Maryregistry, no verse
- Maryregistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
- Barnabas3 events
- Paul2 events
- Cyprus2 events
- Pamphylia2 events
- Jerusalem1 event
- Work1 event
- John1 event
- Travel1 event
- Greeting1 event
- All Of You1 event
- Aristarchus1 event
- Luke1 event
and 8 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Mark is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
10 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (6), Colossians (1), 2 Timothy (1), Philemon (1) and 1 Peter (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 5 books. The name is written 13 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Acts 12Mark’s mother Mary hosted the praying company to whom Peter came after escaping prison.
- Acts 15Mark became the point of dispute between Paul and Barnabas, then sailed with Barnabas for Cyprus.
- Colossians 4Mark sends greetings, with prior instructions that he is to be welcomed if he comes.
- 2 Timothy 4Mark is summoned because he is useful in the ministry.
- Philemon 1Mark sent greetings as one of Paul’s fellow workers.
- 1 Peter 5Mark sends greetings and is named as the writer’s son, without the relationship being explained.
Sources