Coursework.Info - Inspiration in an Instant

On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:

A2 There are many reasons to believe that Mark's Gospel was written for Non-Jews facing persecution also suggestions Mark wrote it to comfort the Christians who were being persecuted to give them courage, comfort them and to make them brave so they could go on worshipping God. The Christians were persecuted for practising an illegal religion and they were often blamed when things went wrong. After Jesus' death Christian were believed to be just another Jew this allowed them to practise their religion with the protection of Judaism. But this also meant that the protection of the Jewish religion was lost as it became clearer that Christianity had become more independent and was seen as a different religion. Mark wrote his Gospel in AD64, the same time as Rome was burned down in a great fire where the Christians were blamed and persecuted harshly. He wrote it because he wanted to show...

Get instant access

• Instant, unlimited access to our documents in full
• Swap your work for free access, or pay £4.99
• To see the full version of this document and 146,186 others

OR

Receive email updates for this category

• Simply tell us your email address and receive a weekly Study Help Email for FREE
• Receive 3 FREE essay views with each email
• Get all the latest essays from Coursework.Info & discussion from TheStudentRoom.co.uk