“After their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did also hand down to us in writing what had been preached by Peter.”21 In this passage he also records that Peter preached in Rome as a further reinforcement. A fragment of Clement of Alexandria’s Hypotyposes describes how the church in Rome under Peter asked Mark to record the components of the Gospel.22 Jerome calls Mark the “disciple and interpreter of Peter” in the writing of his Gospel, likely relying on Irenaeus and Eusebius