Papias of Hierapolis

Papias of Hierapolis was also silent about them.

A third version appears in the early Christian writings of Papias of Hierapolis.

Papias of Hierapolis is also believed to have been a student of John the Apostle.

It is based upon an early Christian tradition, deriving from the 2nd century bishop Papias of Hierapolis, that the apostle Matthew composed such a gospel.

A famous and much-debated occurrence of the term is in the account by Papias of Hierapolis on the origins of the canonical Gospels.

The idea that some or all of the gospels were originally written in a language other than Greek begins with Papias of Hierapolis, c. 125-150 CE.

Around 125 A.D., Papias of Hierapolis noted that the apostle Matthew compiled sayings by Jesus in Aramaic.

An alternative account of John's death, ascribed by later Christian writers to the early second-century bishop Papias of Hierapolis, claims that he was slain by the Jews.

The earliest evidence on the identity of this John is from Papias of Hierapolis, a "hearer of John" writing c. 100, whose work survives only in fragments quoted by others.

One possible alternative view of the epistle's authorship arises from a fragment written by Papias of Hierapolis and quoted by Eusebius which mentions a man named "the Presbyter John".

He appears in fragments from the church father Papias of Hierapolis as one of the author's sources and is first unequivocally distinguished from the Apostle by Eusebius of Caesarea.

PG 5: Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Melito of Sardis, Papias of Hierapolis, Apollonius of Ephesus, etc.

In this connection, he attributes to Christ the saying about the vine with ten thousand branches, and the ear of wheat with ten thousand grains, and so forth, which he quotes from Papias of Hierapolis.

Papias of Hierapolis composed around AD 100 a work, now lost, entitled Exegesis of the Dominical Logia, which Eusebius quotes as an authority on the origins of the Gospels of Mark and Matthew.

Papias of Hierapolis, who lived circa 70-163 AD, in the surviving fragments of his work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord relates that Mary, wife of Alphaeus is mother of James the Less: