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The apostle Peter instructed the whole church scattered throughout the region to be “ always . It is more than probable indeed that the apostle John celebrated Easter all his life on the fourteenth Nisan ; but in the Gospel which is attributed to him , he appears to point to quite another doctrine , treats disdainfully the ancient Jewish Passover festival , and makes Jesus die the same day as that on which they ate the lamb , as if to indicate thus the substitution of a new Paschal lamb for the old . Apparently it was the close relationship between Gaul and Asia ( cf. EH 5.1.3 and 17 ) that permitted the Asian Irenaeus , who even in his old age was proud of having been in contact , through Polycarp , with " John and the others who had seen the Lord " ( EH 5.20.5-7 ) , to accept a gospel attributed to the apostle John more unreservedly than was possible for Rome with its consciousness of responsibility as champion in the battle against heresy - - and without any special preference for the apostle of Asia . Simon was impressed by the apostle Philip 's cures and exorcisms . It is to be remembered that in the opinion of Clement , the Cephas who had the famous confrontation with Paul was someone other than the apostle Peter ( Outlines </> 5 , in EH 1.12.2 ) . In Philippians , for example , the apostle Paul can say both that he was “ appointed for the defense of the gospel ” ( Philippians 1:16 ) and that the Philippian Christians supported and shared with him “ in the defense and confirmation of the gospel ” ( 1:7 ) . And then after this when the blessed apostle S. John had preached through all Asia , and sown the word of Christ , they that worshipped idols moved the people against S. John , and came and drove him into the temple of Diana for to constrain him to do sacrifice unto that idol . He would do well to heed the apostle Paul 's advice to " watch your life and your doctrine closely " ( 1 Tim . Decades ago , it was fashionable in some circles to claim that the apostle Paul was influenced by Stoicism . Polycarp , in the early part of his life , had the society of the apostle John , and learned from him concerning Jesus . \ 85 / But then the other item claiming that the Fourth Gospel had been written by the apostle John , \ 86 / which appears to be intimately bound to this in the Papias material of the prologue , hardly could have come from Papias himself . S. Jerome saith of this glorious apostle S. John , that , when he was so old , so feeble and so unmighty that his disciples sustained and bare him in going to church , and as of times he rested , he said to his disciples : Fair children , love ye together , and each of you love other . \ 82 / The only evidence in support of the supposition that Papias considered the Fourth Gospel to be a work of the apostle John is provided by the ancient gospel prologues recently treated by D. de Bruyne and A. von Harnack , which may belong to the period around the year 180 . And unless every knight shall continue chaste , he shall not come to perpetual rest , nor see God , as the apostle Paul witnesseth : Follow after peace with all men , and chastity , without which no man shall see God . The legend said he had a contest with the apostle Peter , in front of the Emperor Nero , who was an admirer of Simon . Not that Grass would construe the resurrection , at least overtly , merely in terms of the survival of Jesus 's soul ; he affirms a bodily resurrection , but the body is ' spiritual ' in nature , as by the apostle Paul , not physical . [ 121 ] That is , he and his congregation had already been using the book ; what harm could come from a writing by the apostle Peter ?