Category: People of the Bible

The background of Daniel begins in the final years of the Kingdom of Judah, during a period of spiritual decline and political instability. As a young man of noble or perhaps even royal descent, Daniel lived through the initial waves of Babylonian expansion under King Nebuchadnezzar. In 605 B.C., following the Battle of Carchemish, the…

John Mark, commonly known as Mark, began his journey in the early church with both promise and setbacks. He was the son of Mary, whose house in Jerusalem served as a meeting place for believers. This Mary is not the mother of Jesus, but another prominent woman in the early church about whom little else…