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The life of Christ, tr. by J.W. [and] (M.G. Hope).
The life of Christ tr by JW - and - M.G. Hope Author:Bernhard Weiss Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IIL MEMOIRS OF PETER. JUSTIN MARTYR, who designates our Gospels memoirs of the apostles, written partly by themselves and partly by their disciples... more », makes a quotation found only in Mark (iii. 17), and expressly asserts that it is found in the memoirs of Peter (comp. Dial. 106). What he means by this we gather from the universal later tradition since the end of the second century, which ascribes our second Gospel to a certain Mark, who, as the companion and assistant of Peter, had written on the basis of his communications. Now we know from the New Testament a John Mark, who was a near relative of Barnabas of Cyprus (Col . iv. 10), and accompanied him when he, along with Paul, undertook the first missionary journey, but quickly separated himself from them; and when, on that account, Paul at a later period did not wish to take him as a companion, he went with Barnabas to Cyprus (Acts xii. 25, xiii. 13, xv. 37—39). After some years, in Ctesarea we find him again beside the imprisoned Paul, on the point of journeying to Asia Minor (Philem. 24; Col. iv. 10), and hear, moreover, that he had been summoned by the latter to come to him in Rome (2 Tim. iv. 11). But besides these occasional relations with Paul, there is always room enough left for that relation to Peter so expressly emphasized in the tradition, which also finds its points of connection in the New Testament. Tor in the First Epistle of Peter (v. 13) Mark is called a son of the apostle, which must plainly be taken in the spiritual sense of his having been converted through the instrumentality of Peter; and in fact we learn from the apostolic history that he was the son of a certain Mary, in whose household in Jerusalem Peter must have been especially well known and trusted (xii. 12 f.). The son of this house was ...« less