Ecclesiastical History Book III. #39. sections 15 - 16:
Mark, having become the interpreter of Peter,
wrote down accurately,
though not indeed in order,
whatsoever he remembered of
the things said or done by Christ.
For he (Mark) neither heard the Lord
nor followed him, but afterward,
as I said, he followed Peter, who
adapted his teaching to the needs of
his hearers, but with no intention of
giving a connected account of the Lord's
discourses,
so that Mark committed no error while he thus
wrote some things as he remembered them.
For he was careful of one thing,
not to OMIT any of the things which he had heard,
and not to state any of them falsely!
[this may imply that in the
second century, according to
Papias, a church elder, Mark's
Gospel had been subjected to
criticism or denigration]
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