Assertion: mark's gospel | /r/HasProperty | written
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text: The gospels were written to strengthen the faith of those who already believed, not to convert unbelievers.
text: Mark's Christ dies with the cry, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"; Matthew, the next gospel to be written, repeats this word for word but manages to make clear that Jesus's death is the beginning of the resurrection of Israel; Luke has a still more positive picture, replacing Mark's (and Matthew's) cry of despair with one of submission to God's will ("Father, into your hands I commend my spirit"); while John, the last gospel, has Jesus dying without apparent suffering in fulfillment of the divine plan.
text: Mark's is the first of the written gospels.
text: + He is the author of the earliest Gospel to be written (it was written in Greek).
text: If the original ending really was lost or destroyed, it probably happened within a few years after the gospel was written.