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If you are referring to the Gospel of Mark which comes second in the New Testament canon, the best evidence we have is that this was written by John Mark who accompanied Paul on some of his missionary work.
Since many consider that Mark's Gospel was the earliest Gospel and was followed by Matthew, then the answer would then be Matthew, the former tax collector and disciple of Jesus Christ. Again, the same certainty of authorship would apply since only Matthew is named as the author of this Gospel in all ancient sources. However if the author of this gospel was either someone else or was unknown there would have been some doubt.
According to Wikipedia on Authorship of Gospel of Mark " The gospel itself is anonymous,.... " , although in context it is also pointed out in the same article that the Gospel was very early attributed to Mark. The quote below gives the details of one of the sources of the attribution Papias who is here quoted by Eusebius of Caesarea: This, too, the presbyter used to say. 'Mark, who had been Peter's interpreter, wrote down carefully, but not in order, all that he remembered of the Lord's sayings and doings. For he had not heard the Lord or been one of his followers, but later, as I said, one of Peter's. Peter used to adapt his teachings to the occasion, without making a systematic arrangement of the Lord's sayings, so that Mark was quite justified in writing down some of the things as he remembered them. For he had one purpose only - to leave out nothing that he had heard, and to make no misstatement about it.
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JordanThe four New Testament gospels were all written anonymously. Ian Wilson (Jesus: The Evidence) says that despite the versions printed in our Bibles long having borne the names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, these names are mere attributions, and even as such are rather less reliable than attributions given to unsigned works of art. He says that it can therefore come as quite a shock to discover that no-one can even be sure who wrote the gospels.
What scholars say they do know is that none of the gospels could have been written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed. The three synoptic gospels were written anonymously towards the end of the first century, too late to have been written by the persons to whom they came to be attributed. We therefore do not know who wrote the second gospel.
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What is the term to refer to Mark who wrote the Gospel?
We do not know the real name of the author of Mark's Gospel, but because the second-century Church Fathers attributed the Gospel to the apostle Mark, we continue to refer to the author as Mark the evangelist.
Who wrote the first gospel in the Bible?
It is Mark.Matthewmost shcolastic agree that Mark wrote the gospel before the others but the gospel by Matthew was put first in the new testament.
Was John who wrote the Gospel of John related to Jesus?
Luke's Gospel says that John the Baptist was the cousin of Jesus, although the other gospel authors seem to have been unaware of this, even saying that John the Baptist did not know Jesus.John the Baptist was not the same person as the disciple John, who is usually credited with writing the Gospel of John. Moreover, John's Gospel was originally written anonymously and was only attributed to the apostle, whose name it now bears, later in the second century. Since John was actually written early in the second century by an unknown author, it was clearly not written by a relative of Jesus.
Who was Mark in The Bible?
Mark was one of the writers of the Gospel accounts. The Gospel according to Mark is the second one.
Which gospel writer wrote about the history of the early church?
The book, Acts of the Apostles, is considered to be a history of the early church. It was written by the same author as was the Gospel According to Luke. Unfortunately, the books were originally written anonymously, and we do not know the actual name of the author. The books were only attributed to Luke later in the second century, when the Church Fathers were trying to establish who probably wrote the books of the New Testament.
