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David Armstrong's avatar

I used to buy #5; I’ve been in #6-7 world for awhile now. I find it likely that the only Gospel whose author is potentially identifiable is Mark—but not Papias’s Mark; I find Helen Bond’s suggestion that this is an otherwise unknown Markos active in Rome attractive.

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JD Walters's avatar

The comment in John that the disciple was known to the high priest is also in tension with John Zebedee being an illiterate Galilean fisherman. How likely is it that such a person would have the eye of the most important religious figure in Judea? And wouldn’t the chief priests have recognized him when Peter and John were hauled before them in Acts where they perceive them to be illiterate? “What’s he doing here, doesn’t the high priest know this guy?”

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