I’ll read the Gospels from people who met and walked with Jesus first. Paul came later.
Paul didn't "come later" as being instructed by others, or was much subservient to them either, beyond the called for submitting oneself, one unto the other.
And who would that be? Peter himself wrote no "Gospels" but instead a pair of epistles.
If by reading from people who met and walked with Jesus first, that still includes Paul, for it has long been accepted that Paul, in a quite powerful encounter, "met" directly with the Lord, with Christ there being also at the right hand of the Father at the same time (in a manner of speaking).
What then did Paul tell us that he did? He did not go and fling himself prostrate before Peter and the other Apostles, now did he?
They DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS in the flesh. Your lack of understanding is rated very high if you don't even know that!
Paul came later.
HE KNEW HIM 'in The Spirit' and was chosen to write over half of the NT! "For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."
The Vatican/RCC is designed to keep the 'easily led' deceived and it shows with post after post.