[dsc]

"Any comments?"

"Father Reginald Fuller, an Episcopalian and Professor Emeritus at Virginia Theological Seminary, with Dr. Carsten Thiede, have analyzed three papyrus fragments from the 26th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew; the fragments date the year 40, which would indicate that the author was an eyewitness to our Lord's public ministry."

So, we have hard proof that the Gospel of Matthew was penned not "hundreds of years" after Our Lord's Resurrection, but earlier than the year 41.

Gee, I, I somehow missed the media furor that must certainly have created. I presume all the skeptics have stopped asserting the late authorship of Matthew, and are appropriately chagrined and apologetic.

[Salvation]

**So, we have hard proof that the Gospel of Matthew was penned not "hundreds of years" after Our Lord's Resurrection, but earlier than the year 41.**

Very true.

And we know that Luke traveled with Paul (Acts of the Apostles -- so he got some of his knowledge from Paul, but may have also known Jesus personally. Remember Paul was persecuting the followers of Christ.

[Jeff Chandler]

I remember reading about a linguist who was translating the Gospel of Matthew from Greek into Hebrew. He was astonished to discover that the Greek rendered into Hebrew of a poetic form common to Scripture, indicating that the Greek was actually translated originally from Hebrew! That would most certainly date Matthew within 70 years of Jesus' death and resurrection.

[siunevada]

Gee, I, I somehow missed the media furor that must certainly have created.

I'll bet Peter Jennings is breathlessly at work on a special presentation even as we speak. He must be so excited.

The skeptics have always brushed aside Irenaeus with no explanation. His description of Polycarp is interesting. Not a learned man but he remembered what John taught him.