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There s a new translation of the Gospel according to St. Mark, the shortest of the four gospels, entitled The Memoirs of St. Peter. It s by a good friend of mine, Michael Pakaluk, who is also a columnist for The Pilot. Published in 2019 by Regnery Gateway, it has just been joined this year by his new translation of the Gospel according to St. John, entitled Mary s Voice in the Gospel According to John. I can t wait to read the new volume, for his Gospel of Mark is superb.
Pakaluk provides an introduction which explains his approach to translating and commenting on Mark s Gospel, relying on the ancient tradition that Mark accompanied St. Peter and captured the immediacy and themes of Peter s first-hand preaching about the public life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, including Jesus sayings and his miracles. He quotes Tertullian, for example, who wrote at the end of the second century: The Gospel that Mark wrote may be affirmed to be Peter s, whose interpreter Mark was.