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PS. Please read info given (ei. Biblical texts) before making a statement. I had to give you useless information the Acts qoutes as well as Colossians that you could have got yourself if you read them.
You are presenting your case, show the connection clearly.
I didn't ask you to show me where it said Mark. You are bringing comments in from different authors. I asked you to:
1. Show evidence that Peter is not referring to his own son.
2. Show evidence that the authors of Acts, 1 Peter, Colossians, and 2 Timothy are referring to the same person.
3. If you show evidence that they are referring to the same person, then show evidence that their Mark is the author of the Book of Mark as we know it today.
You could have made a clearer case for the references to Mark in Acts, Colossians, and Philemon as referring to the same person. Now take a stab at #3.
2 Timothy isn't considered to be Pauline and 1 Peter isn't considered to be written by Peter. So their authors are unknown.
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Clements of Alexandria, Papias, and Origen are not indirect sources and therefore is not hearsay.
Early Christian Texts
Papias is repeating what the presbyter said.
And the presbyter would say this: Mark, who had indeed been Peter's interpreter, accurately wrote as much as he remembered, yet not in order, about that which was either said or did by the Lord. For he neither heard the Lord nor followed him, but later, as I said, Peter, who would make the teachings anecdotally but not exactly an arrangement of the Lord's reports, so that Mark did not fail by writing certain things as he recalled. For he had one purpose, not to omit what he heard or falsify them.
Papias did not talk to Mark the interpreter. So the information is second hand.
Origen wrote a commentary about 240AD. Obviously didn't talk to Mark either.
Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215) sites tradition. Again not someone who talked to Mark.
None of these men are direct witnesses.
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And finally, how is that not substancial evidence that the authors name was Mark?
Authors don't necessarily use their real names.
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