| 020 | Mark’s gospel was written around the time Jerusalem and its temple was destroyed (70 CE). What do you think Mark would be wanting to tell the Roman Empire about the followers of Jesus? |
| 020 | The gospel of Mark was written around 70 CE when an urgent message about the nature of Christianity needed to be passed on to Jews, Christians, Gentiles and Romans alike. | James S. McLaren, Turbulent times?: Josephus and scholarship on Judaea in the first century CE (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998). |