text: 2. The Acts account notwithstanding, I think it's possible that Peter and James remained in the background even after becoming active after Paul's visit to Jerusalem, functioning more as a check on his orthodoxy than as a movement in Jerusalem. Paul continued to found communities and composed letters explaining his theology -- precisely because his was the only gospel extant for many years. One of the many questions posed in response to Paul's proclamation of Jesus as risen was whether this was, in fact, true and how it could have happened -- questions taken up by Mark after Paul's death.
  
  3. Mark, still anticipating an imminent Parousia, wrote his narrative (the "passion narrative wit a long introduction") in an effort to convert people before the end came upon them, and focused almost exclusively on a few points of Jesus' life and teaching, as well as his death and a very sketchy account of his resurrection. The different resurrection accounts are explained by questions that remained