Applied with Pastor Ryan Baitzel
Sep 13, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
Ryan and Doug explore the key ideas for understanding Mark's Gospel that are given to us in the introduction.
Doug BeckerHost
Ryan BaitzelHost
So let's go ahead and just kind of do a little bit of like kind of intro to Mark and everything.
I take it everybody, if you haven't heard the sermon, you should go and listen to it.
but yeah, so we don't, we don't have a ton of like knowledge about the writing of the gospels.
Like a lot of things can be inferred and there, there is some evidence that is helpful to us, but generally it is thought that Mark is the first of the gospels to be written.
And, um, And I think you mentioned that it's pretty across the board whenever guys are talking in the early church, like the first few centuries, are talking about how the Gospels came to be.
And you kind of get interesting hints of that throughout the sermon, throughout the book of Mark, like interesting ways where it's either something that really does make sense if you think of it as an eyewitness.
One of the things that often comes to mind is like later later on, not too far into the gospel, the all these people are coming out to him from all these surrounding regions.
And and it just makes the side comment for he had told his disciples to prepare a boat.
And, you know, all kinds of like other like interesting, interesting little little things.
So immediately in Mark, he's trying to get out away from the crowds who are coming to him.
And it says and the wording here in verse 36 and Simon and those who were with him searched for him.
You could totally picture, you know, Peter just being like, you know, we searched for him.
I always think it's cool, too, like, you know, because some people are like, why get caught up in the date thing? But, you know, I think one of the most amazing things is these things came out while these people were living, you know.
So let's go ahead and just kind of do a little bit of like kind of intro to Mark and everything.
I take it everybody, if you haven't heard the sermon, you should go and listen to it.
but yeah, so we don't, we don't have a ton of like knowledge about the writing of the gospels.
Like a lot of things can be inferred and there, there is some evidence that is helpful to us, but generally it is thought that Mark is the first of the gospels to be written.
And, um, And I think you mentioned that it's pretty across the board whenever guys are talking in the early church, like the first few centuries, are talking about how the Gospels came to be.
And you kind of get interesting hints of that throughout the sermon, throughout the book of Mark, like interesting ways where it's either something that really does make sense if you think of it as an eyewitness.
One of the things that often comes to mind is like later later on, not too far into the gospel, the all these people are coming out to him from all these surrounding regions.
And and it just makes the side comment for he had told his disciples to prepare a boat.
And, you know, all kinds of like other like interesting, interesting little little things.
So immediately in Mark, he's trying to get out away from the crowds who are coming to him.
And it says and the wording here in verse 36 and Simon and those who were with him searched for him.
You could totally picture, you know, Peter just being like, you know, we searched for him.
I always think it's cool, too, like, you know, because some people are like, why get caught up in the date thing? But, you know, I think one of the most amazing things is these things came out while these people were living, you know.
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