18 Passages From Mark That Prove Jesus Is God
By Erik Manning - January 8, 2019

Biblical critics like Bart Ehrman say that the deity of Christ was a later invention that developed near the end of the first century. Bart and others of his ilk say that Mark, the earliest gospel, has a lower view of Jesus than John, who says he’s the pre-existent Word made Flesh. Quoting Bart:

"If Jesus went around Galilee proclaiming himself to be a divine being sent from God…could anything else that he say be so breath-taking and thunderously important? And yet none of the earlier sources (read: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) says any such thing about him. Did they (all of them!) just decide not to mention the one thing that was most significant about Jesus? Almost certainly the divine self-claims in John are not historical."

So does Ehrman have a point? Here's a spoiler-alert: No.

The tension between the Synoptics and John isn't there. Not like Bart makes it out to be. I'm going to share 18 passages that show that even if we only had Mark and the Old Testament documents, we could still arrive at John's conclusions about Jesus' deity. These verses taken together present a pretty clear picture: Mark believes Jesus is God.

http://reasonsforjesus.com/18-passages-from-mark-that-prove-jesus-is-god/?