- 1) Mark was adopted or fabricated by Cerinthians, i.e. adoptionists, separationists.
- 2) The ebionites were adoptionists.
- 3) for (1) and (2), it is expected that the ebionites would have used Mark, too.
- 4) ...contra factum that the ebionites hated Paul, and by extension: they would have rejected the paulinist Gospel of Mark.
- Some adoptionists found interest in Paul, and produced the Gospel of Mark;
- Other adoptionists didn't accept Paul, and condemned any attempt to welcome Paul in their field. They have become famous as: ebionites.
This says me that someone introduced the knowledge of Pauine epistles to people who were already adoptionists.