Church History 3.39.14 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Papias also records Aristion's and John the presbyter's traditions, including one about Mark.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:135–136

καὶ ἄλλας δὲ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ γραφῇ παραδίδωσιν Ἀριστίωνος τοῦ πρόσθεν δεδηλωμένου τῶν τοῦ κυρίου λόγων διηγήσεις καὶ τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου Ἰωάννου παραδόσεις, ἐφʼ ἃς τοὺς φιλομαθεῖς ἀναπέμψαντες ἀναγκαίως νῦν προσθήσομεν ταῖς προεκτεθείσαις αὐτοῦ φωναῖς παράδοσιν, ἢ περὶ Μάρκου τοῦ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον γεγραφότος ἐκτἐ- θεῖται διὰ τούτων

English · Claude translation

In his own writing he also hands down other accounts of the Lord's words from Aristion, mentioned above, and traditions of the presbyter John. Referring the studious to these, we shall now necessarily add to his words already set out a tradition which he has set down about Mark, who wrote the Gospel, in these words:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:135–136 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Extrabiblical texts

Papias (Papias (fragments)) · allusion, high confidence

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/14/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/39/14/).