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A Passage-by-Passage Commentary of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Designed to strengthen the global church with a widely accessible, theologically sound, and pastorally wise resource for understanding and applying the overarching storyline of the Bible, this commentary series features the full text of the ESV Bible passage by passage, with crisp and theologically rich exposition and application....

Early church fathers often point to Rome as the location at which Mark was written. Without doubt, Peter lived in Rome for at least the last two decades of his life before his martyrdom around AD 67. It is also very likely that John Mark lived in Rome during at least some of this time (cf. 1 Pet. 5:13). In the likelihood that John Mark lived in Rome around AD 63–65, the horrific events of Emperor Nero’s persecution of Christians in AD 64 may have contributed to the
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