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The gospel of Mark: what is unique?
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Most of Mark is also in Matthew and/or Luke. However, those writers have reworked, sometimes significantly, the material they inherited from Mark.
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Material only in Mark:

3:20-21 Jesus' family thinks he is crazy
4:26-29 but compare Matt. 13:24-30
8:22-6 taking two attempts to heal a blind man
9:14-29 greatly expanded in Mark
14:51-52 the young man with the linen cloth flees

Material not in Mark:

No Advent, or Christmas stories
No post-resurrection appearances of Jesus
Only a few parables.
Last updated 4/8/09; first posted 5/7/02;original content © 2009, 2002 John P. Nordin