Peter’s interpreter, wrote down accurately whatsoev-
er he remembered. It was not, however, in exact or-
der that he relatedsaying or deeds of Christ. For he
neither heard the Lord accompanied him, but sub-
sequeitly as I said attached himself to Peter who
used to frame his teaching to meet the wants of his
hearers, and not as making a connected narrative of
the Lord's discourses. “l
It is not possible to say whether Urmarcus was ex-
panded and revised to give us the Gospel of Mark as
we have it by Mark himself or by some other person,
Dr. C.J. Cadoux, who was Mackennal Professor of
Church History at Oxford, thus sums up the conclu-
sions of eeminent Biblical scholas regarding the na-
ture and composition of this Gospel:
1 Roberts and Donaldson (editors), The Ante-Nicene
Vo. I, pp. 154, 155.