… Advocates of the view that John knew one or more of the Synoptic Gospels always have to
… : why did John alter the earlier texts so much? In the case of Mark, how do we explain John’s …

… enquiry into the relationship between John and Mark, with special … the writers of John's
Gospel knew Mark and that John shows a … between John and Mark, and then analyses John 6 in …

… 7.36–50), a version on which John also seems to draw. John shares with Mark and Matthew
a … If anything, John outMarks Mark by devoting the whole of the last half of the gospel to the …

… observe that ‘if narrative is typical of Mark, discourse is typical of John’, 4 and ‘[i… John and
Mark, it becomes evident that not only is the amount of direct speech lower in Mark than in John…

… I will use the traditional names ‘John’and ‘Mark’for the authors of the Gospels of John and
Mark respectively with no further assumptions about the identity of the authors. P. Gardner-…

… Mark develops this theme all through his gospel. The very first paragraph features John
the … Looking back over the whole two-cycled arrangement of Mark 6-8, we can see Mark …

… Almost all literature on the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in Mark 1:911 is of the opinion
… John are as follows: a man, Jesus from Nazareth, came to John to be baptised. During his …

… 1) John knew a written version of either Mark’s gospel or a written source known to and used
by Mark; 2) John … John’s transformation of the material has made it extremely difficult to see …

… in John and Mark have a number of differences as well as striking points of similarity. There
are eighteen miracle stories in Mark, … 2 Mark also emphasises the wonder of the crowds in …

… John’s transformation of his source text may result in … 76 For example, John uses the precious
stone list from Ezek 26–28 to … John often takes great liberties in his creative transformation …