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Well, actually Mark and Luke were not Apostles. Matthew and John were. It is known they wrote them else their names would never have been so confidently and so consistently attached to their work. No-one else is suggested as author, which would have been the case if no-one knew who wrote their work.

Further to this, it is clear that both absolute truth and apostolic authority were important to the early church, hence Mark using Peter as his main source and Luke using a variety of sources. Of course both Matthew and John were direct eyewitnesses of what they wrote about.

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