jesus and the eyewitnesses the gospels as eyewitness testimony

What’s the evidence for Peter’s eyewitness testimony in Mark’s Gospel? Hovering over the references below will bring up the NET Bible version on each of these. The writers of the four Gospels are also called evangelists.Įven though I tried hard to simplify Bauckham’s evidence and conclusions, I admit that this article may get complicated unless, perhaps, the readers look up some passages. Slashes // mean parallel passages among them. The authors are sometimes called synoptists. The series is intended for the laity, though I hope seminarians, church leaders, and scholars can find something beneficial in it.īefore we begin, recall that Matthew, Mark, and Luke have a lot of passages in common, so they are called the synoptic Gospels ( synoptic means viewed together). We also consider two other scholars’ book: D. The entire series is committed to bringing onto the web what scholars are saying in their books that support traditional conclusions about the Gospels and in this article it is Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans 2006). But when we read it, we can also hear Peter’s preaching and eyewitness testimony in the background, in small hints.Īnswering that one-word question is the subject of this long article on the historical reliability of the Gospels, not their inerrancy and inspiration if we cannot establish the Gospels' historical reliability, then how can we move on to discuss their inspiration and inerrancy, as they have been traditionally understood? But nothing here contradicts those doctrines. The evidence suggests that Peter was indeed a portrait painter, but he used words alone.

Jesus and the eyewitnesses the gospels as eyewitness testimony