Where was Mark’s community? Strong church tradition points to Rome as the place of writing of Mark’s Gospel. One early reference to this is what we call the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to Mark’s Gospel. These Anti-Marcionite Prologues are early introductions to the gospel. And in that prologue, it says that Mark’s Gospel is written in the regions of Italy. That agrees with some other early church leaders, like Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria, who both say that Mark’s Gospel was written in Rome to