St MARK's Gospel, a canonical book of the New Testament, being one of the four gospels.
St Mark wrote his gospel at Rome, where he accompanied St Peter, in the year of Christ 44. Tertullian and others pretend that St Mark was no more than an amanuensis to St Peter, who dictated this gospel to him; others affirm, that he wrote it after St Peter's death. Nor are the learned less divided as to the language this gospel was written in; some affirming it was composed in Greek, others in Latin. Several of the ancient heretics received only the gospel of St Mark: others among the catholics rejected the twelve last verses of this gospel. The gospel of St Mark is properly an abridgment of that of St Matthew.