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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The Gospel of Mark.
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- Now this is the first of the four gospels. This one is written more to a
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- Jewish audience and the view of this gospel is that Jesus is the King.
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- Makes sense. It's a Jewish audience, they're looking for that King of David and here he is,
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- Jesus Christ. Now I happen to believe that the Gospel of Matthew was the first of the four gospels written.
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- Many people think it's Mark. We'll get to that later when we talk about the book Mark, but I believe it was Matthew. Why? Well, it would make sense because in the early years, first Christianity was really a religion of the
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- Jews. So it would make sense that the gospel to the Jews would be the one first written.
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- Now Matthew is very interesting because who was Matthew? He was a tax collector.
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- This is some of the irony of God, that God uses a man like Paul, a Pharisee, to write so much to the
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- Gentiles. Here he uses a tax collector to write to the Jews.
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- Why is that irony? Because a tax collector would be one person that in Judaism you would not see as someone high.
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- It would actually be a traitor to the people. A tax collector is someone who collected money for Rome, for the enemy, and collected it from their own people.
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- The Jews saw a tax collector as a traitor, and so that is why I find that so interesting.
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- But it is the first of the four Gospels, and it focuses on Jesus Christ as the
