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Mark

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The evangelist; "John whose surname was Mark" (Acts 12:12, 25). Mark (Marcus, Col 4:10, etc.) was his Roman name, which gradually came to supersede his Jewish name John. He is called John in Acts...

Mark, Gospel according to

Easton's Bible Dictionary

It is the current and apparently well-founded tradition that Mark derived his information mainly from the discourses of Peter. In his mother's house he would have abundant opportunities of...

Temple, the Second

Easton's Bible Dictionary

After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize the long-desolated kingdom. The body of pilgrims,...

John, Second Epistle of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Is addressed to "the elect lady," and closes with the words, "The children of thy elect sister greet thee;" but some would read instead of "lady" the proper name Kyria. Of the thirteen verses...

Peter, Second Epistle of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in favour of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears. It...

Timothy, Second Epistle to

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy to come to...

Corinthians, Second Epistle to the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia....