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MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF
Date. The book of Matthew, like the other synoptics and the book of Acts, does not report the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple but describes these events as still future. These books had been written either before this tragedy or a long time after it. It would be indeed rash to put them long after A.D. 70. Therefore, they must have been penned before that date. Since Luke's gospel is earlier than Acts, and Matthew is certainly earlier than Luke, it seems entirely probable that if he wrote an Aram. original he did so around A.D. 40-45. This would place the Gk. Matthew around the middle of the first century A.D.
MARK, GOSPEL OF
Attestation-- External Evidence. The gospel circulated early among Christians. By the middle of the second century it was included by Tatian in his Diatessaron, or "Harmony of the Four Gospels" (c. A.D. 168). It is quoted by Irenaeus in the last quarter of the second century as being Mark's. Others before him, such as Papias, assert that Mark was both Peter's disciple and interpreter. Mark's close association with Peter is corroborated by numerous details of internal evidence, suggesting eyewitness testimony. But Mark evidently used other sources besides Peter. Quite a bit of material reveals Aramaic coloring. Rome is fixed by tradition as the place where the gospel was written by Mark. If so, it must be dated around A.D. 65-68, but if Luke's gospel was written before A.D. 63, Mark must be dated still earlier.
Author. Internal evidence agrees with the traditional Markan authorship. The writer is clearly a Christian Jew. He knows Jewish thought and life. He is acquainted with Aramaic. He writes with a thorough knowledge of Palestine.
LUKE, GOSPEL OF
Date. Since the book was written before the Acts, which is to be dated c. A.D. 61, it was likely written while Paul was at Caesarea. Since internal evidence that Luke wrote both the gospel and the book of Acts (and he divulges the fact that the gospel was written first, <Acts 1:1>), it must be concluded that the gospel was penned prior to A.D. 61. Luke was in Caesarea where Paul was in prison <Acts 27:1>. This circumstance would furnish him opportunity for the research he mentions with such fine literary style and classical flourish in <Luke 1:1-4>.
JOHN, THE GOSPEL OF
Date. The date of the fourth gospel is to be assigned between A.D. 85 and 95. A papyrus bit containing two verses of the gospel of John has been discovered; it belongs to the Papyrus Rylands and is dated c. A.D. 140. This bit of evidence suggests that the fourth gospel was in existence as early as the first half of the second century and at that time was already in wide use.
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The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion and basing it on the Mithras religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!
Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?