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Originally Posted by zeek

Was John Meyer an eye witness of the events that he wrote about? None of the gospel writers claim to be eyewitnesses of Jesus.

None of the Gospels are not written in the first person singular voice. All four of them keep their identities anonymous, something you wouldn't expect if they were apostles whom Jesus had chosen and sent.

According to the Gospels the disciples were mostly uneducated peasants From Galilee. Acts 4:13 says Peter and John were uneducated and untrained men. The gospels as literary documents reflect higher education and for the most part correct Greek grammar. Jesus and his Apostles appear to have spoken Aramaic.

The author of Luke explicitly tells us that he used oral and written sources for his narrative and claims that some of these sources were drawn from eyewitnesses. The Gospel of Matthew also appears to rely on the Gospel of Mark as source material, something you wouldn't expect the author to do if he were an eye witness.

But what is the point?