Talk:Mark the cousin of Barnabas

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The confusion of three NT characters (Mark the Evangelist, John Mark, and Mark the Cousin of Barnabas) has coused a lot of difficulties in NT studies. the rediscovery of Hippolytus' On the Seventy Apostles helps to clarify the issue. Different scriptures related with these three people are cited in the three articles. All three are necessary to existe, in order to have a complete picture.

I edited John Mark significantly, but chose to put the content about Mark the Cousin of Barnabas under a separate title, because they are really two persons, and putting together on the same page would be confusing and inconvenient when other pages need to reference only one person. This is a good reason for keeping this page separate.

Here is an exanmple in the Wikipedia article on Barnabas, as of now (09/15/2010):

"'His aunt was the mother of John, surnamed Mark (Colossians 4:10), widely assumed to be the same Mark as the person traditionally believed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark.'"

This is a clear example of speculation generated by the confusion of Mark the Cousin of Barnabas with John Mark and Mark the Evangelist.

This is what I will modify the article: deleting the above sentence in the section "Barnabas in NT", and add this passagge in "Other Sources":

"Barnabas had a cousin what was an associate of Apostle Paul during his First Imprisonment in Rome in c.58-60 (Colossians 4:10; Philemon 24). Contrary to many people's assumptions, according to Hippolytus of Rome, Mark the Cousin of Barnabas is neither John Mark, nor Mark the Evangelist. They were all members of the Seventy Apostles of Christ, including Barnabas himself. There are two Barnabas' among Hippolitus' list of Seventy Disciples, one (#13) bacame the bishop of Milan, the other (#25) the bishhop of Heraclea. Most likely one of these two is the biblical Barnabas; the first one is more likely, because the numbering by Hippolytus seems to indicate a level of significance."

The issue could be clarified with separate articles on Mark the Cousin of Barnabas, John Mark, and Mark the Evangelist —Preceding unsigned comment added by Daiqing Yuan (talk • contribs) 15:03, 15 September 2010 (UTC)