Re: How late might the gospels be?
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:25 pm
That makes sense. It does not necessarily imply that Peter had been dead when Mark was composing this.andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 11:52 amThe fact that Papias is writing out from memory what Peter said, implies that Peter is either dead or gone away somewhere.rakovsky wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:59 pm
It turns out that my information was wrong about this. Papias doesn't say in what I found that Mark wrote his gospel after Peter's death. And Eusebius claims that Mark was writing his gospel while Peter was still preaching:
http://coldcasechristianity.com/2014/is ... tle-peter/Papias said Mark scribed Peter’s teachings
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“And the elder used to say this, Mark became Peter’s interpreter and wrote accurately all that he remembered, not, indeed, in order, of the things said and done by the Lord. For he had not heard the Lord, nor had followed him, but later on, followed Peter, who used to give teaching as necessity demanded but not making, as it were, an arrangement of the Lord’s oracles, so that Mark did nothing wrong in thus writing down single points as he remembered them. For to one thing he gave attention, to leave out nothing of what he had heard and to make no false statements in them.”
Eusebius also wrote an additional detail (Ecclesiastical History Book 6 Chapter 14) related to Mark’s work with Peter:
“The Gospel according to Mark had this occasion. As Peter had preached the Word publicly at Rome, and declared the Gospel by the Spirit, many who were present requested that Mark, who had followed him for a long time and remembered his sayings, should write them out. And having composed the Gospel he gave it to those who had requested it. When Peter learned of this, he neither directly forbade nor encouraged it.”
Andrew Criddle