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A:The four New Testament gospels were originally anonymous, with none of them claiming to have been written by an eyewitness to the life of Jesus. They were attributed by the Church Fathers to the apostles whose names they now bear later in the second century, with Matthew and John assumed to have been written by eyewitnesses, but not Mark or Luke. However, biblical scholars do not support those attributions and say that none of the gospels could have been written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed.
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