Original sentence: Catholic scholars have interpreted this passage as indicating "that Jesus traveled in a wide circle, first north, then east and south".The author of Mark did not seem to know that you would not go through Sidon to go from Tyre to the Sea of Galilee, and there was no road from Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the 1st century, only one from Tyre.The gospel, however, appears to rely on several underlying sources, which vary in form and in theology, and which tell against the story that the gospel was based on Peter's preaching.The theory that the Gospel of Mark was written first and is the earliest of the Gospels is not without its problems
Edited sentence: Catholic scholars have tried to reconcile this apparently problematic passage by interpreting it as indicating "that Jesus traveled in a wide circle, first north, then east and south".Peter's interpreter is not without its problems.The author of Mark, as well as the interpreter, if Mark was indeed read back to the interpreter truthfully (considering there even was an interpreter), did not seem to know that you would not go through Sidon to go from Tyre to the Sea of Galilee, and there was no road from Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the 1st century, only one from Tyre.The gospel also appears to rely on several underlying sources, which vary in form and in theology, and which tell against the story that the gospel was based on Peter's preaching.The theory that the Gospel of Mark was written by Mark the Evangelist, as St