![]() For he was neither a hearer nor a follower of the Lord, but, as I said, afterward followed Peter, who made his discourses to suit what was required, without the view of giving a connected digest of the discourses of our Lord. The most important of these testimonies is that of Papias, who says, "He, the Presbyter (John), said, Mark, being the Interpreter of Peter, wrote exactly whatever he remembered but he did not write in order the things which were spoken or done by Christ. Mark was not one of the twelve and there is no reason to believe that he was an eye and ear witness of the events which he has recorded but an almost unanimous testimony of the early fathers indicates Peter as the source of his information. As to the language in which it was written, there never has been any reasonable doubt that it was written in Greek. Chrysostom, indeed, asserts that it was published at Alexandria but his statement receives no confirmation, as otherwise it could not fail to have done, from any Alexandrine writer. In this Clement, Eusebius, Jerome, Epiphanius, all agree. As to the place, the weight of testimony is uniformly in favor of the belief that the Gospel was written and published at Rome. ![]() 63-70 becomes our limit, but nearer than this we cannot go. Again we may as certainly conclude that it was not written after the destruction of Jerusalem, for it is not likely that he would have omitted to record so remarkable a fulfillment of our Lords predictions. We may conclude, therefore, that this Gospel was not written before A.D. The most direct testimony is that of Irenaeus, who says it was after the death of the apostles Peter and Paul. Upon this point nothing absolutely certain can be affirmed, and the Gospel itself affords us no information. The author of this Gospel has been universally believed to be Mark or Marcus, designated in ( Acts 12:12 Acts 12:25 15:37 ) as John Mark, and in ch.
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