![]() John is last, follows an independent tradition, and could be as late as 100AD. Matthew and Luke are later and depend on Mark and some unknown sources. Mark is said to have been written first and not much before 70AD. The dominant view is that the Gospels were not written by eyewitnesses, though they depend on material that may go back to eyewitnesses. These views have been doubted or denied by New Testament scholars from about the end of the 18thCentury. It was also long held that Matthew was first and as early as the 40sAD, followed by Mark and Luke, and lastly by John, and that all were written before about 70AD. That the Gospels are the writings of their traditional Apostolic authors was long held to be settled truth. A defense of the traditional view, against the historical critical method, that the Gospels are authentic eyewitness records of the apostles. ![]()
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