[what's up]

Luke was a doctor so likely knew how to write. Matthew was a tax collector...ditto. And John may have been well-educated; scripture tells us he knew the High Priest so thus may have moved in high circles.

Mark? I have no reason to believe he had no education.

[metmom]

I really don’t believe that the people in those days were as uneducated and illiterate as everyone likes to make them out to be.

There’s this perception that people who lived then were just ignorant dolts. That they were illiterate, therefore stupid.

Even if they were illiterate, that does not by default equate to stupidity. It simply means illiterate.

Smart people can be illiterate if they never had the opportunity to learn to read and write.

[Elsie]

Luke was a doctor so likely knew how to write.

Ya think??

Luke 1

1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.