Did Jesus Disciples Write the Gospels?
Did Jesus’ Disciples Write the Gospels? (Book Notes: Apocalyptic Prophet) Wednesday April 19, 2006 Who wrote the gospels of the New Testament? It’s common for believers to act as though they were written by the disciples whose names appear at the top. To call such a state of affairs ‘implausible’ would be an understatement, however. The gospels were not written by illiterate fishermen from Galilee, nor were they written to be objective, historical accounts of events that really happened. In Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet, Bart D. Ehrman explains: [A]ll four Gospels are written in Greek, by authors who were reasonably well educated and literate. In comparison with most other persons in the Roman world, all four authors, in fact, evince a high level of education. Something like 90% percent of the general population was completely illiterate th
