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Who is the traditional author of the first gospel?

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Around 130 CE, Papias, bishop of Hieropolis, named Mark as the author of the hitherto anonymous gospel (From Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 3.39). Since that time, Mark has traditionally been accepted as the author of what is now known as Mark's Gospel.

Paul had mentioned a person called Mark, as one of his fellow workers, in his letter to Philemon. Then, in the first epistle of Peter (l Peter 5:13), a peudonymous document from the second century, a Mark is mentioned as Peter's son. Presumably these were thought to have been one and the same person.
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