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 '''Mark the Evangelist''' was an earlier embodiment of [[Mark L. Prophet]], now the ascended master [[Lanello]].
-Mark was the son of one called Mary of Jerusalem. He was the companion and the scribe of the early Christian missionaries. He is listed as the probable author of the Gospel of Deeds, whence comes the symbol of Mark the Evangelist as a winged lion—the second “living creature” beheld by Ezekiel in his vision of the glory.<ref>Ezek. 1:10.</ref>
+Mark is known as the probable author of the second gospel, the “Gospel of Deeds,” whence comes the symbol of Mark the Evangelist as a winged lion—the second “living creature” beheld by Ezekiel in his vision of the glory.<ref>Ezek. 1:10.</ref>
-John was his Jewish name; Mark, or Marcus, was his Roman name, in keeping with the custom of Hellenistic Jews of this time. ''John'' means “God is gracious,” i.e., “Upon this place, upon this servant, the grace or the light of Yahweh descends”; ''Marcus'' is from the Latin, “a large hammer.”
+He was raised an Essene and, being well-educated, was chosen Peter’s chief disciple and secretary and was taken to Antioch to assist Paul. He became an exponent of the deeper mysteries of Christianity and founded the Church at Alexandria, where he was later martyred.
 [[File:Last Supper de Champaigne.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The Last Supper, Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (c. 1678).<br />Mark is shown on the left serving at the table.]]
 == The Biblical account ==
+John was his Jewish name; Mark, or Marcus, was his Roman name, in keeping with the custom of Hellenistic Jews of this time. ''John'' means “God is gracious,” i.e., “Upon this place, upon this servant, the grace or the light of Yahweh descends”; ''Marcus'' is from the Latin, “a large hammer.”
 E. P. Blair writes of Mark’s background:
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 The Acts of the Apostles records that John Mark was taken by Barnabas and [[Saint Paul|Paul]] on their first missionary journey as an assistant.<ref>Acts 13:5.</ref> Barnabas and Paul arrived at Jerusalem to bring alms from the Christians in Antioch to the Christians in Judea during the famine of <small>A</small>.<small>D</small>. 45. They needed an assistant, and it is likely that it was Barnabas who chose his young cousin or nephew Mark.<ref>Acts 12:25; Col. 4:10.</ref>
-We read the occasion when Paul is represented as instructing Timothy to bring him Mark “for he is very useful in serving me.”<ref>2 Tim. 4:11.</ref> John Mark acted as a teacher as well as a travel secretary. At Perga in Pamphylia, when they were about to enter upon the more arduous part of their mission, Mark left the apostles, and for some unexplained reason, returned to Jerusalem—to his mother and his home.<ref>Acts 13:13.</ref>
+We read of the occasion when Paul is represented as instructing Timothy to bring him Mark “for he is very useful in serving me.”<ref>2 Tim. 4:11.</ref> John Mark acted as a teacher as well as a travel secretary. At Perga in Pamphylia, when they were about to enter upon the more arduous part of their mission, Mark left the apostles, and for some unexplained reason, returned to Jerusalem—to his mother and his home.<ref>Acts 13:13.</ref>
 In <small>A</small>.<small>D</small>. 51, Barnabas and Paul resolved to set out on a second missionary journey. On this occasion, Paul resolutely declined to associate himself again with one who “departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.” The issue was a “sharp contention” which resulted in the separation of Paul from his old friend Barnabas who, taking Mark with him, returned to Cyprus while Paul proceeded through Syria and Cilicia.<ref>Acts 15:36–39.</ref>
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 Elizabeth Clare Prophet, June 17, 1981.
+{{MTR}}, s.v. “Lanello.”
 {{LTJ}}.
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