When Were the Gospels Written? (The Dates of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Dates of the Canonical Gospels From the Faith Perspective
The church holds that public revelation ended with the conclusion of the apostolic age. But there's a bit of a question about precisely when it ended. For one thing, we don't know the precise year that the last apostle died. There's also a question about who counts as an apostle because it isn't just 12.
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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.
