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Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

The phrase " Son of God " is not present in some early manuscripts at.

Ehrman uses this omission to support the notion that the title " Son of God " is not used of Jesus until his baptism, and that Mark reflects an adoptionist view.

The words, " Today I have begotten you ," are omitted from the canonical Gospel of Mark, however, and it is therefore generally believed to have less adoptionist tendencies than the Gospel of the Hebrews.