The gospel of Mark is the second to appear in the New Testament ... death until you see the Kingdom come with power." (MK 9:1.20). But these expectations were not fulfilled.

To try to combat this misconception, Jesus touched the man when healing him. This is the only time in Mark’s Gospel where Jesus heals out of pity, showing great compassion by touching the leper.

However, tradition places him at Rome, but one more tradition also has him located at Alexandria, and it may be the case that the story that we call Mark's gospel, which supposedly derived from ...