Original sentence: John the Apostle or John the Evangelist.Luke the Evangelist.Mark the Evangelist.Matthew the Evangelist
Edited sentence: (The pseudonymous First Epistle of Peter, dated around 100 AD, mentions Mark as a companion of Peter).180 AD.180 AD that the Evangelist was John the Apostle, but there is no earlier record of the tradition that the two were identical.80-100 AD.According to the 4th century writer Eusebius, who claims to be quoting a lost work by the early 2nd century author Papias, Mark was asked to write his account by the Christians of Rome, and recorded the preaching of the apostle Peter.Dated c.John the Evangelist.Luke the Evangelist, the companion and contemporary of Paul.Mark the Evangelist, otherwise known as John Mark, a cousin of Barnabas the companion of Paul and later himself a companion of Paul.Matthew the Evangelist is said by the early 2nd century writer Papias to have written a "Sayings of Jesus" in Aramaic.The Church father Iranaeus reported c.The Gospel is not a sayings collection and shows clear signs of having been composed in Greek, but it is accepted by tradition as the document referred to by Papias.The earliest representation of Luke as the author of this Gospel (and of Acts) comes from the Muratorian Canon, a catalogue of the New Testament thought to date from c.The first evidence of the existence of the Gospel dates from the mid 2nd century.Usually dated no earlier than AD 70