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When was Mark the Evangelist born?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The term 'evangelist' is generally used to apply to the authors of the four New Testament gospels. All four gospels were originally anonymous, but were attributed by the Church Fathers, later in the second century, to the disciples thought most likely to have written them.

Since we do not know who 'Mark' really was, other than that he was not the Mark mentioned by Paul, we can not say with certainty when he was born. What perhaps we can say is that if he was between perhaps 30 and 50 years old in the year 70, when he wrote the Gospel, he would have been born between about 20 CE and 40 CE.

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