1 Peter 5:13

13. The Church… with you Literally, The co-elect at Babylon. Some, as Alford, understand Peter’s wife. 1 Corinthians 9:5. Most expositors understand the Church, which, indeed, the Sinaitic MS. inserts. Wordsworth would read the co-elect dispersion at Babylon, as the epistle is addressed to the elect dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bythinia. This seems the most reasonable.

Babylon See Introduction.

Marcus my son Literally so, if the previous clause refers to the apostle’s wife. Otherwise, John Mark the evangelist, the follower and disciple of St. Peter.