Fragments from the Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord, Papias of Hierapolis

Fragments from the Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord: Fragment IV: "As the elders who saw John the disciple of the Lord remembered that they had heard from him how the Lord taught in..."

Fragments from the unwritten, oral tradition of the Presbyters, a “sayings” or logia tradition that had been passed from Jesus to the apostles and disciples, as he mentions in the fragmentary quotation. Collected by Papias in the 2nd Century AD.