Aramaic more fluently than Greek. Mark took notes of Peter’s discourses about Jesus. Mark’s Gospel is the Roman Gospel, Matthew’s the Jewish, Luke’s the universal, and John’s the spiritual Gospel. John probably wrote towards the end of the century and for the purpose of proving the deity of Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God. Matthew, Mark and Luke cover very much the same ground and are therefore called the synoptic Gospels. John’s Gospel chiefly supplements the synoptic account and is largely in
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