Could Matthew and John not be eyewitness accounts?

August 7, 2011

Question: My friend sent me this critique on the gospels of Matthew and John not being eyewitness accounts. He said, according to the majority viewpoint, this gospel is unlikely to have been written by an eyewitness. While Papias reported that Matthew had written the Logia this can hardly be a reference to the Gospel of Matthew.…

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The Jesus Seminar

September 23, 2004

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton I.         At the beginning of April, 1996, three major news magazines [Times, Newsweek, and US News and World Report] all carried the same lead story – “the search for the historical Jesus”             A.        This wasn’t a coincidence. A group of self-proclaimed scholars, called “The Jesus Society”, were behind the stories.             B.        Questions regarding who…

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