Is it true??????????????

Question

Mark, Matthew, Luke and John never met Jesus and never knew Jesus in person? They were just historians?

Answer 1

who knows exactly who wrote the bible or when the events occured

Answer 2

Probably.They also didn't know what the last words were of Jesus.

How stupid were the people who wrote the Bible!

Such fools they are

Answer 3

The books were written at least 70 years after Jesus' death.

The people who wrote them were not the apostles themselves.

Answer 4

I have been taught they were historians and did not meet Jesus. I will say I am Jewish though so I am not sure what Christian teaching is on this to be honest.  

Answer 5

Nope, not true.  Matthew and John were both Apostles.  Luke and Mark followed around Peter and Paul on their missionary missions(though I am not sure whether Luke was with Paul, and Mark with Peter, or vice versa).

Answer 6

The person who wrote the Gospel of Matthew was not actually the Apostle Matthew - same with the others. The gospels were written about 70 years after Jesus supposedly died. The authors were Hellenized Jews who spoke Greek, not Aramaic or Hebrew, and there are several places in the gospels where it shows. A hilarious example is when Matthew has Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a colt and a donkey at the same time. Matthew decided to take a totally unrelated passage in Zechariah and make it an omen of Jesus entering Jerusalem, but he was unaware that in Hebrew, repetition was often used for emphasis, so he has Jesus pulling a Mask of Zorro stunt, riding two animals at once.

Answer 7

You've gotten essentially this answer from someone else but just to clarify with more explicitness...

The Gospels were written down by people different from those whose names are associated with the Gospel.  That is, Matthew likely did not sit down with pen in hand & write the Gospel according to St. Matthew as we have it.  But, by the same token, there is no reason to suppose that the writing we have is not based on earlier manuscripts written by Matthew himself.  We don't really know. The writer appears to believe that what he is presenting is what Matthew taught about Jesus.

The same is more or less the case for the other Gospels.  The Gospel of John may be an exception as it is believed that John lived to a ripe old age & died a natural death. John himself, the "Apostle that Jesus loved" may have dictated the words, or most of the words we have.

(The Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) seems more likely to be by his own hand.)

So, the people whose names are associated with the Gospels are the people who knew Jesus but the people (whose names are unknown to us) who ensured the words of these followers would be preserved, likely did not walk with Jesus.

Answer 8

No... These men actually walked, talked, ate, and slept wherever Jesus did.  It was actually common for young jewish men to study under a rabbi and become that rabbi's disciple or in other words his apprentice.

Answer 9

No that's not true. Matthew and John were two of the twelve disciples who spent three years of their lives with Jesus.  Mark was with Jesus a lot. Luke got first-hand information from people who had been with Jesus.

Answer 10

Considering nothing was wrote until about seventy years after his death.  That would have made them about 90? Life wasn't kind enough back then to live that long.