The Gospel of St. Peter

Mark is the son of the woman who owned the upper room. So where they celebrated the Last Supper and where the Apostles gathered, the disciples gathered after the Lord's crucifixion and resurrection. And so that's a great connection that Mark would have had with the early, early church. Now as he's writing this, one of the thoughts as well is that he's writing during the persecution of Nero. We heard in the very first chapters here, the call of the first disciples and they were called to become fishers of men. They're also called to pick up their cross with the Lord Jesus Christ and to trust in him.