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To: CondorFlight

John was written much later. This is not discussing him. Just the synoptic authors, Matthew, Mark, Luke.


6 posted on 12/09/2014 5:25:55 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

“John was written much later.”

Except that the internal evidence is that it was written very early (see the Tresmontant book); although perhaps revised later at the end of John’s life and released in Greek.

Thiede claims that a fragment of Mark dated to 50 AD was found at Qumran (there is a lively debate over that).

But all the Christians at the start were united, in Jerusalem; their story was therefore single; what they believed was shared among them; and it was very possible for them to take that unified single message out to the world—even basing it on common written records which were theirs.


10 posted on 12/09/2014 5:51:55 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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