Eusebius of Caesarea
Church father · died c. 339
Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine from about 313 and the first historian of the church, whose Church History tells its story from the apostles to Constantine. He divided the Gospels into numbered sections and drew up ten canons, tables showing which sections each Gospel shares with the others; copyists wrote his numbers in the margins of Gospel books for a thousand years.
Quoted For
- Mark 15:28 “And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors”
The church fathers are the early Christian writers. Their quotations show which reading was known, where, and when, often earlier than any manuscript of the passage that survives.
