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The Manuscript History of the New Testament
The four gospels are being read together as a collection in different networks m across the mediterranean welt. The emergence of these texts as a coherent collection took many, many more decades to sort itself out. There wasn't ever a moment where all the apostles were in a room together to say, this is the new testament. It was also important that there was some kind of lineage or connection that people could make between a text and back to the first generation.