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When Were the Gospels Written? (The Dates of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Luke's Gospel, You Shall Receive Power When the Holy Spirit Has Come on You

In luke's gospel, you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you is a reference to the events of pentecost that are recorded in acts. This shows that luke was not written very long before acts. If years had elapsed, we wouldn't find the gospel ending the way it does using the same exact kinds of ases which set up the recurrence of those things at the beginning of acts. The presence of these and other elements at the end of luke indicates that he was already planning what he was going to say at the start of the book of acts. I therefore estimate that l Duke was finished immediately before ax likely in a d 59,. He used

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