Papias of Hierapolis heard the apostle John preach and knew Christians who knew the apostles. He wrote one work in five books called the Expositions of Oracles of the Lord. Even though these survived until the time of Eusebius, they are lost today. Through quotations of him, we have ten fragments of his writings. From these fragments, we can know the circumstances of how John Mark wrote his gospel, more information about Judas, and more about how the apostles passed on their teachings to the elders.

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*Quotations from ancient writings might be paraphrased because many of them were translated in the 1800s. I have done my best to keep this to a bare minimum.*

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