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The Gospel of Barnabas 131 The verses unique to each of the first three Gospels are as follows: Matthew 330, Mark 53, and Luke 500.

From the Fathers of the Church until the end of the Eighteenth century AD, one and a half millennia passed without any new problems being raised on the sources of the evangelists: people continued to follow tradition.

It was not until modem times that it was realised, on the basis of these data, how each evangelist had taken material found in the others and compiled his own spe足 cifie narration guided by his own personal views. Great weight was attached to actual collection of material for the narration. It came from the oral traditions of the com足 munities from which it originated on the one hand, and from a common written Aramaic source that has not been rediscovered on the other, This written source could have formed a compact mass or have been eomposed of many fragments of different narrations used by each evangclistto construd Ris own original wm'k. 7 Thus the question inevitably arises as to whether the Apocryphal Gospel of Barnabas is, in fact, either this missing Gospel or at least a part of the possible collection of different narrations. It must be remembered that John Mark, whose Gospel is the earliest of the four accepted Gospels, was the son of the sister of Barnabas. He never met Jesus. Thus, what he related of Jesus's life and teaching in his Gospel must have been related to him by others. It is known from the books of the New Testament that he accompanied Paul and Barnabas on many of their rnissionary journeys up to the point when there was a sharp conflict between them, resulting in Barna足 bas and Mark going to Cyprus together. It is unlikely that Mark relied on Paul as a source of information since Paul had never met Jesus either.

The only reasonable conclusion appears to be that he must have repeated what his uncle Barnabas told him about Iesus. It is said by sorne that he acted as Peter's interpreter and wrote down what he had learned from Peter. This may be correct, for Mark must have had sorne contact with the other apostles when he was not jour足 neying with Barnabas or Paul. However, Goodspeed shows us from his research that anything he did learn from Peter was by no means comprehensive: