The Acts of the Apostles

THE SOURCES AND THEIR VALUE 193
details (the house of St. Mark's mother, the assembly
there, Rhoda the maid-servant) looks quite like an
account derived from St. Mark, and probably is so, or
rather information derived from St. Mark has found
its way into the story. " A " is not so strictly homo-
geneous as to prevent us from supposing that a second
or even a third source has been used in it. But apart
from this passage, nothing can be found in A which
can be ascribed to St. Mark with greater probability
than to St. Philip ; indeed there is absolutely no other
detail of the source which points at all to St. Mark.
The same also holds good of Silas. Naturally St.
Luke also received from him information concerning
Jerusalem, but A in its essential character is bound
up not only with Jerusalem, but also with Samaria
and Caesarea. We are accordingly left only with St.
Philip.^ But it may now be objected if this source
depends upon St. Philip, and if, moreover, he and
his Samaritan mission may have originally stood in
some kind of opposition to St. Peter and his mission
in Jerusalem and Judaea, is it not strange that in
one and the same source St. Philip and St. Peter
appear in such peaceful proximity ? We may answer
that the story of the mission of St. Philip, at all
events, does not belong to the Jerusalem-Antiochean
source, and that at a later time even St. Philip him-
self would have felt that any trace of opposition
between himself and St. Peter had been smoothed
1 I have already shown in " Luke the Physician," pp. 153 ff.,
and I will not here enlarge upon the point, that the investigation of
the sources of the gospel of St. Luke points to a special source connected
with Jerusalem which has a certain relationship with A of
the Acts.
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