Who are the four apostles of Jesus Christ who wrote the gospels?

Answer 1

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The four New Testament gospels were all anonymous, but by the end of the second century had been attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Of these, Matthew and John are disciples in the gospels, but modern New Testament scholars say that none of the gospels could have been written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed. We know whom the Church Fathers credited with writing the gospels, but we do not know who really wrote them.

Answer 2

The first four books of the New Testament are the gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, we do not know the names of the anonymous evangelists who wrote these gospels. Decades after they were written, the Church decided to assign authorship and concluded that they were written by the apostles whose names they now bear. Biblical analysis tells us that the real authors could not have been the individuals whom this tradition has assigned to the gospels.

Answer 3

The four New Testament gospels were originally anonymous, but were attributed to the four disciples, whose names they now bear, later in the second century. These decisions by the second-century Church Fathers was based purely on who they thought best fitted the profile of the authors, not on any real information.

Modern scholars tell us that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were based on the Gospel of Mark and that the Gospel of John was, in turn, inspired by Luke's Gospel. If there were any residual reason to believe that these gospels were written by eyewitnesses to the life of Jesus or those close to eyewitnesses, this knowledge puts that notion to rest. No disciple would neen to rely so totally on another written account. And there are good reasons to believe that Mark's Gospel was not written by John Mark.

In summary, we are no closer today to knowing who wrote the gospels than the Church Fathers were at the end of the second century.

Answer 4

Religious belief is that The Bible including it's gospels are written by God, and that the original authors and the church who interpreted and chose which gospels to include in the Bible were the instruments of God in the Bible's creation.

The first four gospels are entitled Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John and are often attributed to these disciples of Jesus; however, we simply don't know who actually wrote them.

Religious historians think that the first Christians didn't write down any of the stories about Jesus because they believed that the world would soon end with the second coming of Christ and thus there was no reason to keep a record for posterity. The stories of Jesus were told orally for a generation as a result. The second generation began writing collections of these stories in what are called gospels. Eventually, the church decided which gospels to include and exclude from the Bible as well as which versions of Gospels to use and how they should be translated.

Answer 5

A:Quite surprisingly, almost none of the books of the New Testament were written by the authors to whom they are traditionally attributed.

Paul is the only New Testament author we actually know. Even in the case of Paul's epistles, it is the overwhelming view of New Testament scholars that several of the Pauline epistles were written in Paul's name, after his death. Of the epistles nominally attributed to Paul, the consensus of scholars is that only Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Philemon, Galatians, Philippians and 1 Thessalonians are genuine. This means that we do not really know who wrote Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus in Paul's name.. A.Q. Morton goes further, having carried out a computer analysis of the epistles attributed to Paul and found that only Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians and Philemoncontain exactly the same writing style as Galatians.

Not one of the epistles attributed to James, John, Jude and Peter can safely be attributed to the named apostles. With the possible exception of the Epistle of James, scholars say they were written anonymously in the second century.

The New Testament gospels were written anonymously and only attributed to the apostles whose names they now bear, later in the second century. They were written between approximately 70 CE and the early second century, whcih would rule out any of the disciples as authors. In any case, scholars say that none of the gospels could have been written by an eyewitness to the events described. On internal evidence, they also rule out associates of Paul as authors of the gospels. So, we do not know who wrote the gospels.

Finally, a person called John appears to have written the Book of Revelation. We know nothing of this 'John', but scholars say that he could not have been the apostle John nor the author of John's Gospel. To distinguish him, this otherwise unknown author is frequently referred to simply as John of Patmos.

Answer 6

A:Tradition says that the authors of the four New Testament gospels were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, this tradition only arose during the course of the second century, and before that the gospels were anonymous. Some use the word 'apostle' quite narrowly and say that Mark and Luke were not apostles, but that Matthew and John were.

However, modern New Testament scholars say that there is no good reason to accept these attributions and also that none of the gospels could have been written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed. This would certainly rule out Matthew and John as potential authors.

We do not really know who wrote the gospels.

Answer 7

The term evangelist in this context means the four authors of the gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, we do not know the real names of the anonymous evangelists who wrote these gospels. Decades after they were written, the Church decided to assign authorship and concluded that they were written by the apostles whose names they now bear.

Biblical analysis indicates that the real authors could not have been the individuals whom this tradition has assigned to the gospels.

Answer 8

There are four of them, they wrote the 4 gospels. They are matthew, mark, Luke and John.

Answer 9

For Christians, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the writers of the four Gospels in the New Testament.