text: Yeah, right!  Mark was with Paul in his early evangelizing missions.  Later, Paul and he had words, because Paul considered Mark to be too ostentatious regarding his dress.
  
  Mark came to Peter, and remained with him.  In writing the Gospel of Mark, many of the comments made by Peter to Jesus or others are recorded by Mark.
  
  Mark would have had NO TIME to go to Egypt to learn and then to  teach the people the writing of their language that is used in the written Coptic.  By that I mean using the Greek alphabet and the six letters that. represent Egyptian consonantal sounds not found in Greek.   In addition, there are the dialects of Sahidic and Bohairic which Mark would have had to master.
  
  I don't think that Mark was the one who began the Coptic rite---it would have sooner been someone who was already speaking the language, was Coptic and perhaps was in Jerusalem at the time of Pentecost.