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Psst...just a word of advice. Wikipedia is not a good source for reliable information. Most likely it has been edited by the Vatican. :O)

BTW-I’ve started to read the early church fathers and it is incredibly interesting though dull and difficult reading. The early church apparently had far more problems with the Greeks then they did with the Jews. Many of the early Christians were executed not for causing trouble with the Jews but because they would not confess to the state sanctioned religion (e.g. Zeus, etc.) It has given me a new level of respect for Paul who mission was to go to the Gentiles. I bring this up because it would have been understandable for the Jewish believers in 90AD to want to exclude Gentile believers from codifying the scriptures. Many of the Gentile believers had some very serious issues much like the Corinthians. I doubt any of us would have wanted the Corinthians to have a say in what should be included in the scriptures.

How odd that Protestantism would appeal to the Sanhedrin at JABNEH (Yavneh; Heb יַבְנֶה; Ar. Yibnā ﻳَﺒْﻨَﻰ) for legitimacy, after His rejection, after His death, burial, and resurrection, after His words to his servants; Why does Protestantism not obey the judgment of the Sanhedrin, instead of the one holy catholic apostolic church, with regard to who is the Messiah ?

What will the King say when He returns to find his servants at war among themselves in such a manner ?

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

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These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

Matthew, Catholic chapter twenty one, Protestant verses thirty three to forty five,

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John, Catholic chapter sixteen, Protestant verses one to four,

as authorized, but not authored, by King James