<small>'''Navigation''' :: [http://sensusplenior.net/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=Introduction=127 forum]:[[Main Page]]::[[Gospels: Fulfillment of the mystery]] > [[Mark]] > [[Mark's tools]]</small>---- The book of Mark is generally accepted as having been written before the other three gospels. Though the gospel of Thomas is not and should not be considered scripture, it is an interesting document which shows evidence of having been written later than Mark and familiarity with the hermeneutic tools of John.

This gospel was the first one written as and was probably a collection of sermon notes from Peter. The main point of Peter's preaching was that Jesus was the Son of God, and the evidences that demonstrated such as prophesied in the Old Testament.

==Peter's 'revelation'== Peter, familiar with scripture, had correlated the things Jesus did, with the prophecies of scripture, to arrive at his conclusion. His revelation from the Father, through the guiding of his memory of scripture, was a subtle as . It was the same process God used to write prophecies of Christ in puns, riddles , metaphor and double entendreword play. The same Spirit of prophecy that produced the scripture guided him to interpret it. :<ref>[[2Pe 1:20]] Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.</ref>

Rather than look for an outside source (such as Q<ref>The Q document theory was created by Greek to try to understand why the gospels differ and why they are the same. They theorize that the gospel writers used a common text as their source. The gospek writers did not write in a vacuum, requiring a source text to copy from. Matthew has the book of Mark. Luke had Mark and Matthew, and John had the other three.</ref>) for Mark, perhaps a closer look at the scriptures available to Peter in is order.