When Were the Gospels Written? (The Dates of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Is John's Gospel Written After Mark and Luke's Martyrdom?
Most translations of john 21 19 make it sound like peter's martyrdom is a past ant. But the greek text actually has the future tense for the verb at this point. So if john was written after mark and luke, that would put john some time before the destruction of the temple in 70. In otherw s, in the a d sixties. Can we narrit down any further?
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The four Gospels have been a primary source of information about Jesus Christ for 2,000 years, but in recent times, some skeptics have said they were written so late after Jesus, they aren't reliable. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli find out what tradition, Church teaching, and historical sources tell about when the Gospels were really written.
