Early Patristic Quotations from the New Testament

Early Patristic Quotations from the New Testament
(from their surviving works)

(Chart adapted from Evidence That Demands a Verdict, p. 55)

Papias: "Now Matthew made an ordered arrangement of the oracles in the Hebrew language, and each one translated it as he was able."
Irenaeus wrote of Papias: "a hearer of John and a companion of Polycarp."
"(Polycarp) had familiar intercourse with John and with others who had seen the Lord."
of the Apostle Matthew: "Matthew also among the Hebrews published a written gospel in their own dialect, when Peter and Paul were preaching in Rome and founding the Church there."(c. AD 180)
Irenaeus wrote of himself: that he "...had the preaching of the Apostles still echoing in his ears and their doctrine in front of his eyes."
Polycarp wrote : "of the apostles who preached to us..."
Eusebius wrote in the 4th century concerning Pantaenus (teacher of Clement of Alexandria) circa 150-215, " went to India, and the tradition is that he there found his arrival anticipated by some who were acquainted with the gospel according to Matthew; for Bartholomew, one of the Apostles, had preached to them and left them the writing of Matthew in Hebrew letters, and this writing was preserved until the time mentioned."
St. Jerome finished the official Latin Vulgate 407. He testified that when he translated Matthew he worked with an ancient copy of Matthew's Gospel written in Hebrew.