Appendices ad indices apostolorum discipulorumque

126 Timothy, the bishop of Ephesus appointed by the blessed Paul, was from the Gentiles, not from the circumcision, to whom Paul also bears much witness, exhorting him to guard the good confession of the grace given to him, who also there gloriously suffered martyrdom. Titus, bishop of Crete, proclaimed the gospel of the Lord to the Cretans themselves and the surrounding islands, and there he died and was buried. Crescens in Gaul proclaimed the gospel of the Lord and is buried there. The eunuch of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, in Arabia Felix and in the island of Taprobane and throughout the Red Sea region proclaimed the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is a report that he also gloriously suffered martyrdom and was buried there; and his resting place is an invincible weapon for the faithful against harmful barbarians, a refuge that drives away diseases and works cures even to this day. From the apostles of the Savior, the seventy, as Clement relates in the fifth book of the Hypotyposes, became Barnabas, Sosthenes, Cephas of the same name as Peter, Matthias who was numbered among the eleven, Eubulus, Pudens, Crescens, in the second, Barsabbas and Linus, whom Paul mentions writing to Timothy, Thaddaeus, Cleopas and those with him. These are the names of those appointed deacons. First, Stephen the protomartyr. Second, Philip. Third, Prochorus. Fourth, Nicanor. Fifth, Timon. Sixth, Parmenas. Seventh, and Nicolaus. And of the seventy, these are the foremost: Paul, Mark, Luke, Titus, Candace's eunuch, John the Baptist.

It is necessary to know how the four Gospels were composed. That after the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Gospel according to Matthew was after eight years, the Gospel according to Mark after twelve years, the Gospel according to John after thirty years in the time of the emperor Domitian, the Gospel according to Luke after fifteen years. The Gospel according to Matthew, written in the Hebrew dialect by him in Jerusalem, was published, and it was interpreted by John. The Gospel according to Mark was dictated by Peter in Rome. The Gospel according to Luke was dictated by Paul in Rome. The Gospel according to John, in the times of Trajan, was dictated by John himself in the time of Commodus, and was written on the island of Patmos. And of the Gospel according to Luke, by Luke, who was a disciple of the apostle Paul, whom the same apostle mentions in a certain letter, writing: "Luke, the beloved physician, greets you." And the Acts of the holy apostles were also composed by the same evangelist. It is not possible for these to be either more or fewer in number. For the Gospel according to John narrates his governing, effective, and glorious generation from the Father: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; everything came into being through him." Therefore it is in the likeness of an eagle. And the Gospel according to Luke, since he was of a priestly character, began from Zacharias the priest, saying: "It happened in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, that there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah," because according to the ancient tradition of the law, the priests brought bulls; therefore his form is also depicted as calf-shaped.

Matthew explains his human genealogy, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ son of Abraham, and again the birth of Jesus Christ was thus, whence his Gospel is depicted as anthropomorphic. Mark, however, began from the prophetic spirit coming from above in the heavens, saying the beginning of the Gospel, as it is written in the prophets: a voice crying in the wilderness, showing the prophetic image of the Gospel, for this reason also depicting the image of the lion in the wilderness. Holy Trinity, our God, save us by your grace. Mark the evangelist, bishop of the Alexandrians. Luke the evangelist, these four are from the seventy, having been scattered for the proclamation which the Lord said: unless someone eats my flesh and drinks my blood, he is not worthy of me. But some through Peter, some through Paul, having returned again to the Lord, are deemed worthy to proclaim the Gospel, for which they also bore witness, one burned, the other crucified on an olive tree.