(April 6, 2013 at 12:56 am)Tex Wrote: Luke went out and interviewed people. He asked the witnesses and made a document for a guy named/nicknamed Theophilus. So Luke isn't exactly witness accounts, but it is the combination of witness accounts.
The apostle John wrote the Gospel of John.
The apostle Matthew wrote the Gospel of Matthew.
Mark was one of the 70 not-as-close disciples of Jesus.
Well done in relaying what Tradition says.
With Mark being the first Gospel written, why did "Matthew", a supposed witness, feel the need to use the content in Mark as opposed to his own eyewitness testimony? Why is it written in third person?
John is a clear example of rumours being hyped up, which indicates it couldn't have been an eyewitness who wrote it, otherwise we wouldn't see this clear exaggeration in e.g. theology.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
