Did any of the people who wrote the New Testament know Jesus personally?

No, no one was writing the Bible as Jesus was hanging on the cross.

Matthew and John knew Jesus; Matthew was the tax collector Levi that was called by Jesus to come and follow him, and then spent the next three years with him daily. Likewise, John was an apostle, and his gospel is his eyewitness account. Mark was the companion of the apostle Peter, and his account comes largely (though not completely) from Peter's first-person view. Luke was a doctor, and specifically wrote his account as an investigation of the events of Jesus' life; he says he talked to as many witnesses as he could. He was a companion of Paul.

Here's what Luke wrote to his friend Theophilus: "So many others have tried their hand at putting together a story of the wonderful harvest of Scripture and history that took place among us, using reports handed down by the original eyewitnesses who served this Word with their very lives. Since I have investigated all the reports in close detail, starting from the story's beginning, I decided to write it all out for you, most honorable Theophilus, so you can know beyond the shadow of a doubt the reliability of what you were taught." (Luke 1:1-4 in The Message Translation)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1...

These accounts were written sometime between Jesus' resurrection (in about 32 A.D) and the time that the earliest copies appear in the historical record (about 65 A.D.) Because these books were copied and shared widely, and because we assume we do not have the original copies, the actual works had to be written earlier than 65 A.D. That's VERY early, just about 30 to 32 years later.

Think about it. Today we study information about World War II, about the moon landings, about Watergate, about the Russian revolution, about Vietnam ... and each of these things is further back in history from us than the Gospels were from the events they depict. I remember Nixon's resignation. I recall spaceflights. I remember Vietnam. Those events happened in my lifetime. If they didn't really happen and they were reported that they did, I'd be saying "Wait, that's not true!" Everyone would. And yet we have the gospels, but no accounts that say they are false, or made up, or fake.

Mohammad said that Jesus was a man of God. If Jesus was a man of God, then he's not a liar when he says that he's the Son of God. Mohammad also said that the Old Testament was God's word. In the Old Testament, it says there must be a sacrifice for sin. There's no sacrifice in the Qur'an, is there? But there is a sacrifice in the New Testament, and the man of God Jesus -- the guy that Mohammad says we're supposed to listen to -- says that he is that sacrifice.

Short story? Anyways stay away from u-Tub. Nottin there but JUNK. Lets see now Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all wrote sumthin and they knew Jesus. James,Titus,Paul where a few more who wrote about Jesus and Knew Him well.

Than Caran is just a big Fable. Written by a bunch of ???

God Bless Ya,

Chicago Bob

imasinner

There is more joy in Jesus in one day.

Than there is in the World 365/24/7

I know, I tried them both.

Numbers 6:24-26

John's gospel has traditionally believed to have been in its core, written by John the apostle. Indeed some clues in the text seem to say that, talk of the "beloved disciple" that seems to be pretty clearly John, and then saying elsewhere that the "beloved disciple" wrote it.

Mark has traditionally been thought to have contained Peter's witness.

OK Luke met Paul, as it says in Acts (also written by Luke), but he does say he interviewed the eyewitnesses, and the early chapters look to be pretty much Mary's testimony.

Matthew could be the disciple Levi, although that can't be proven, but it is interesting that an episode with Levi in Matthew's gospel, calls him Matthew (that gospel building on Mark or prototype-Mark, yet changing that small detail.)

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Mohammed received some of his revelations from an angel claiming to be Gabriel (Jabril in Arabic). However it is interesting that it behaved to him in a way one of God's angels (called "holy angels", "angels of light" etc in the New Testament) would not have, pushing him back three times by the head/throat forcefully until Mohammed started speaking revelations that somehow poured into Mohammed's mind. Islam does not teach that there are fallen angels, yet the New Testament does teach about that, including saying that they do try and deceive and masquerade as "angels of light". So the fact that someone receives from some spiritual channel does not mean it is authentically of God. [This event in the cave of Hira is mentioned at the start of Bukhari's hadith collection].

The Apostle John was at the Crucifixion and he wrote book of John and 1, 2, and 3 John + Revelation.

No. The Matthew who wrote the Gospel was not the same Matthew who was Jesus' apostle. None of the Gospels were written by anyone who ever met Jesus. Only Mark was written by someone who claimed to have heard about Jesus from the apostle Paul, so it's a second-hand account. The other gospels are either taken from Mark or from other hearsay.

It has been proven time and again that all of the NT was written by people that were born after Jesus died, some by hundreds of years. The one exception is Paul who was alive at that time, but admits he never met Jesus. In fact, it wasn't until about 400 or 500 years afterwords that it was acceptable to claim that Jesus was a real live human by the Christian Church.

Yes, Matthew walked with Jesus. Mark, was around the group and recorded what Peter said. John was with Jesus. and Luke was a doctor that recorded Christ.

Yes. Matthew, Peter, John, and Saul (Paul) knew Jesus personally.

Matthew, John, James, Peter

Nobody knows for certain...

But probably not.