`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.

" There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom " ( Matthew 16: 28 ) ( or, " until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power " ( Mark 9: 1 ); or, " till they see the kingdom of God " ( Luke 9: 27 ).

Capp has been compared, at various times, to Mark Twain, Dostoevski, Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Sterne and Rabelais.

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

De Palma has encouraged and fostered the filmmaking careers of directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Mark Romanek and Keith Gordon.

Although the team has been sold to Los Angeles investor Mark Attanasio, questions remain regarding Selig's past involvement.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

From the moment Mark Twain published his 1907 attack on Christian Science, the Church, and Mary Baker Eddy, herself, Christian Science has been subject to significant criticism and public controversy.

The most recent Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy See of Saint Mark was Pope Shenouda III, who died on March 17, 2012, for whom a successor has not yet been chosen.

Linkin Park also has a director's cut version for their music video Faint ( which was also directed by Mark Romanek ) in which one of the band members spray paints the words " En Proceso " on a wall.

Bluegrass bassist Mark Schatz, who teaches slap bass in his Intermediate Bluegrass Bass DVD acknowledges that slap bass "... has not been stylistically very predominant in the music I have recorded.

Mark has gained considerable success in writing and producing music for television programs ( starting with Pee Wee's Playhouse and perhaps most famously with Rugrats ), video games, cartoons, and movies ( notably working alongside director Wes Anderson ).

Colossians has some close parallels with the letter to Philemon — names of some of the same people ( e. g., Timothy, Aristarchus, Archippus, Mark, Epaphras, Luke, Onesimus, and Demas ) appear in both epistles.

It later became a prozine under journalist-screenwriter Mark A. Altman and has continued as a webzine.

The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).

Barnabas is about the same length as the four Canonical gospels put together ( the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters, compared with 16 in Mark ), with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus ' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels.

In The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins ( 1924 ), Burnett Hillman Streeter argued that another source, referred to as L and also hypothetical, lies behind the material in Luke that has no parallel in Mark or Matthew.

For example, Mark has Jesus recruit his first disciples before he has performed any miracles, and Luke moves the recruitment scene to a point after Jesus ' first miracles.

* In Chapter 7: 41-42, and again in 7: 52, John records some of the crowd of Pharisees dismissing the possibility of Jesus's being the Messiah, on the grounds that the Messiah must be a descendent of David and born in Bethlehem, stating that Jesus instead came out of Galilee ( as is stated in the Gospel of Mark ); John made no effort to refute or correct ( nor did he affirm ) this, and this has been advanced as implying that John rejected the synoptic tradition of Jesus's birth in Bethlehem.

Studios launched in May a monthly Garfield comic book, with the first issue featuring a story written by Mark Evanier ( who has supervised Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show ) and illustrated by Davis's long-time assistant Gary Barker.

Mark Segal, an early member of Gay Liberation, has continued to pave the road of gay equality.

According to Mark Weisbrot, Aristide has accused the United States of backing the 1991 coup.

He has the seventh-highest slugging percentage lifetime of any ballplayer in major league history, at. 605, ahead of such sluggers as Mark McGwire and Joe DiMaggio.

Many scholars have argued that Matthew is simply an expanded version of Mark, but it is also a creative reinterpretation of the source, stressing Jesus ' teachings as much as his acts, and making subtle changes in order to stress Jesus ' divine nature – Mark's " young man " who appears at Jesus ' tomb, for example, becomes a radiant angel in Matthew.

In Skeptical Inquirer, Mark Moldwin argued that the important differences between the two projects were the acceptance of SETI by the mainstream scientific community and that " he methodology of SETI leads to useful scientific results even in the absence of discovery of alien life.

For example, in 2011 Mark Wrathall argued that Heidegger pursued and refined the central notion of unconcealment throughout his life as a philosopher.

It is argued that this makes more sense if Matthew was revising Mark, rather than the reverse.

It is argued that it is unlikely that Mark was inserting details into many Matthean quotes while leaving out huge events such as the birth of Jesus.

However, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer noted the complete lack of evidence for grain at the " granary ", which, he argued, might therefore be better termed a " Great Hall " of uncertain function.

* Mark Twain ( himself a Deist ) argued against what he saw as the petty God many followed in a posthumously published book, The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood.

English film critic Mark Kermode opined that the first Friday the 13th film's legacy is not that it's a good, well-made film ( it's not, Kermode has argued ) but that it successfully brought an aesthetic mostly confined to grindhouse cinema, at least up until that time, into mainstream cinema.

Mark Liberman criticized the model used to calculate bias in the study and argued that the model unequally affected liberals and conservatives and that " think tank ideology [...] only matters to liberals.

Additionally, Mark Lilla has argued that the attribution to Strauss of neoconservative views contradicts a careful reading of Strauss ' actual texts, in particular On Tyranny.

In the 1995 murder trial of O. J. Simpson, the defense argued that Los Angeles Police Department detective Mark Fuhrman had planted evidence at the crime scene.

In 1955, Austin Farrer argued that the Gospel of Mark was written first, that it was a source for the Gospel of Matthew, and that Mark and Matthew were then sources for the Gospel of Luke.

" However, political scientists Robert Pape and Terry Nardin, social psychologists M. Brooke Rogers and colleagues, and Mark Juergensmeyer have all argued that religion should be considered only one incidental factor, and that so-called " religious " Terrorism is primarily geopolitical.

Herod was the first husband of Herodias, and because the Gospel of Mark states that Herodias was married to Philip, some scholars have argued that his name was actually Herod Philip.

From today's vantage point, it can be argued that the Continental Mark II was successful at being what it was intended to be: an American Rolls-Royce or Bentley, and a re-creation of the grand cars of the thirties.

As one reviewer argued in the Journal of American History, major Republican leaders such as President William McKinley and Senator Mark Hanna made pro-labor statements, many unions supported their own independent labor parties, and unity within the AF of L was never as extensive as claimed.

Some scholars ( e. g. Rodney Stark, Peter Berger ) have argued that levels of religiosity are not declining, while other scholars ( e. g. Mark Chaves, N. J. Demerath ) have countered by introducing the idea of neo-secularization, which broadens the definition of secularization to include the decline of religious authority and its ability to influence society.

In quoting Mark Twain, Finkelstein argued, " Dershowitz cites two paragraphs from Twain as continuous text, just as Peters cites them as continuous text, but in Twain's book the two paragraphs are separated by 87 pages.

" Mark Ravina, the author of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, argued that " Satsuma Rebellion " is not the best name for the war because the English name does not well represent the war and its Japanese name.

Scholars, such as Mark Stoyle, have argued that the Catholic Church had " proved itself extremely accommodating of Cornish language and culture " and that government attacks on the traditional religion had reawakened the spirit of defiance in Cornwall, and in particular the majority Cornish-speaking far west.

State Sen. Mark Leno ( D-San Francisco ) has argued that the rejected $ 10 million budget cut, in abandoning state financial support for the school, would have allowed the Hastings family to launch an expensive court fight to reclaim the $ 100, 000 plus hefty interest.