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Who Wrote the Gospels?

We don’t actually know who wrote the gospels. Have you ever noticed that when reading through them? They’re completely anonymous. Tradition states that the writers were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, respectively, but there’s really no way for us to check that. But why does that matter?

Well, it’s important because various scholars make different claims about when the gospels were written, many of them dating these gospels to many decades after the events. If this were the case, it would make the gospels somewhat unreliable witnesses. It would be challenging to listen to someone who wrote about something from which they were separated by a century.

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