Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance
Gospels later tell that the disciples scattered at the arrest. Peter is a named leader who then follows at a distance. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.
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Gospels later tell that the disciples scattered at the arrest. Peter is a named leader who then follows at a distance. The instrument is received scattering, not a census. Saint Peter's documented role is: The group scatters. He follows at a distance into the denial file. Medium confidence.
Context
The denial row is the speech-failure after this distance. Sharing unnamed other disciples is required. The setting of Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance is the public file around 0030-03-25. Driver forced-displacement-scale is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance on 0030-03-25. A received scattering of a movement at an arrest is a displacement path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Peter The Apostle
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.28 · verified
The group scatters. He follows at a distance into the denial file. Medium confidence.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactGospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance
- strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
- strengthensIndicators (2)People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 25 March 30 · verified
A received scattering of a movement at an arrest is a displacement path.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.8)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
- Worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.46)
Observed
10.4% · 10.2 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 11.1% to 10.4%.
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.New Advent — Mark 6 hometown identification as later EnglishNew Advent · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Jesus, portraits and later art neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: New Advent — Mark 14 scattering as later English at https://www.newadvent.org/bible/mar001.htm (opens in a new tab) (New Advent). Independent locator: Britannica — Jesus, arrest neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jesus (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: New Advent — Mark 14 scattering as later English (https://www.newadvent.org/bible/mar001.htm (opens in a new tab); New Advent). Independent carrier: Britannica — Jesus, arrest neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jesus (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: a sourced public record of Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance under 0030-03-25 for Saint Peter. Established: a sourced public record of Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance under 0030-03-25.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance are separate paths.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Shared responsibility is part of Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance. Naming Saint Peter does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0030-03-25 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorPeter The Apostle
- contributed toFactGospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance
- strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
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Factrail. (2026). Gospels receive the disciples' scattering at the arrest, with Peter as a named leader who then follows at a distance. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-scattering
https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-scattering
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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