research. For the moment, however, it must suffice to add to his previously quoted sayings a tradition which he relates regarding Mark, the author of the Gospel, in the following words: 15 “This, too, the presbyter18 said: When Mark became Peter’s interpreter, he wrote down, though by no means verbatim,19 as much as he accurately remembered of the words and works of the Lord; for he had neither heard the Lord nor been in His company; but he subsequently joined Peter, as I said. Now, Peter did not
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