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Mark the cousin of Barnabas is a figure mentioned in the New Testament, usually identified with John Mark (and thus with Mark the Evangelist). [1]
Mark accompanied Barnabas and Paul on their missionary travels. [2] Mark started with them on their first trip, [3] but left them partway through. [4] Later, when planning their second trip, Barnabas and Paul could not agree about whether Mark should accompany them again, so Barnabas and Mark separated from Paul. [5]
Later, Paul appears to have been reconciled to Mark, for he mentions him positively in Colossians 4:10: "Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you his greetings; and also Barnabas's cousin Mark (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him)." [6] A person named Mark is also mentioned in Paul's letter to Philemon, "Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers. (Philemon 1:23-24 NAU) This indicates that Mark the Cousin of Barnabas was with Paul during his First Imprisonment in Rome, during which he wrote the four Prison Epistles ( Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians).
According to Hippolytus of Rome, in his work On the Seventy Apostles, Mark the cousin of Barnabas ( Colossians 4:10; Philemon 24) is distinct from John Mark ( Acts 12:12, 25; 13:5, 13; 15: 37) and Mark the Evangelist (perhaps the Mark in 2 Timothy 4:11?). They all belonged to the Seventy Apostles of Christ (ranked #56, #65, and #14, respectively), who were sent out by Jesus to saturate Judea with the gospel not long before his crucifixion ( Luke 10:1ff.). [7] Hippolytus says that Mark the cousin of Barnabas was a leader of the apostolic church and the bishop of Apollonia. (There are three possible sites for this place: one in Albania, one in Thrace, and one in Cyrenaica.)
Biblical scholars Samuel Rolles Driver and Charles Augustus Briggs identified Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, with John Mark of Jerusalem, [8] as do John R. Donahue and Daniel J. Harrington. [9]
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (March 2021) |
Mark the cousin of Barnabas is a figure mentioned in the New Testament, usually identified with John Mark (and thus with Mark the Evangelist). [1]
Mark accompanied Barnabas and Paul on their missionary travels. [2] Mark started with them on their first trip, [3] but left them partway through. [4] Later, when planning their second trip, Barnabas and Paul could not agree about whether Mark should accompany them again, so Barnabas and Mark separated from Paul. [5]
Later, Paul appears to have been reconciled to Mark, for he mentions him positively in Colossians 4:10: "Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you his greetings; and also Barnabas's cousin Mark (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him)." [6] A person named Mark is also mentioned in Paul's letter to Philemon, "Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers. (Philemon 1:23-24 NAU) This indicates that Mark the Cousin of Barnabas was with Paul during his First Imprisonment in Rome, during which he wrote the four Prison Epistles ( Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians).
According to Hippolytus of Rome, in his work On the Seventy Apostles, Mark the cousin of Barnabas ( Colossians 4:10; Philemon 24) is distinct from John Mark ( Acts 12:12, 25; 13:5, 13; 15: 37) and Mark the Evangelist (perhaps the Mark in 2 Timothy 4:11?). They all belonged to the Seventy Apostles of Christ (ranked #56, #65, and #14, respectively), who were sent out by Jesus to saturate Judea with the gospel not long before his crucifixion ( Luke 10:1ff.). [7] Hippolytus says that Mark the cousin of Barnabas was a leader of the apostolic church and the bishop of Apollonia. (There are three possible sites for this place: one in Albania, one in Thrace, and one in Cyrenaica.)
Biblical scholars Samuel Rolles Driver and Charles Augustus Briggs identified Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, with John Mark of Jerusalem, [8] as do John R. Donahue and Daniel J. Harrington. [9]