nÒAnd this the Presbyter used to say: Mark, indeed, since he was the
interpreter of Peter, wrote accurately, but not
in order the things either said or done by the
Lord as much as he remembered. For he neither heard the Lord nor followed him, but
afterwards, as I have said Peter, who fitted his
discourses to the needs but not as if making a
narrative of the LordÕs sayings; consequently,
Mark, writing some things just as he
remembered, erred in nothing; for he was careful of one
thing — not to omit anything of the things he
heard or to falsify anything in them.Ó
nCited in Eusebius 3.39.15