Evidence For The 4 Evangelists | Who Wrote the Gospels? 

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I had the privilege of reading Dr. Pitre's book 'The Case for Jesus'. I highly recommend it to Christians who are doubting the credibility of the Gospels.

I read The Case for Jesus and was utterly riveted. I felt like I was walking on terra firma at last, having been truly shaken by the biblical scholars of the 20th and 21st centuries

Thanks to Augustine Institute, I can finally learn biblical theology in 4K. Hehe.... Nothing's wasted, I'm sure many in future are going to appreciate this....

Came here from Catolic Productions. A non Catholic living in Italy. A believer in Jesus Christ loving Dr Pitres teachings.

Brant has a way of making information accessible without dumbing it down. Excellent as always.

Love this! Thank God for this!

This guy knows his stuff , I read his book the case for Jesus 3 times and it brought me closer to what I all ready knew

Thank you, Dr Pitre, for this invaluable information. We Catholics need to equip ourselves and our children with the Truth in order to be able to refute the theory that says the Gospels were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Parents must ground their kids in truth before they go off to university, the bastions of skepticism and relativism. So many young Catholics' faith have been destroyed by the godless academe.

Thank God for Brant Pitre. Who would study this hard about something that his professors tried to claim were exaggerated stories?

Love, Faith, and trust is sky high after watching this…. Thanks Dr. Pitre

Love Dr. Pitre!

Ave Christus Rex

Thank you for saying you were not born Catholic/Christian. I also was born pagan and shortly after Baptized into the Catholic Faith. I left as a teenager as I had a Jewish friend. The Church called the Jews Christ killers. I could not swallow that!!! I returned to The FAITH around 25yrs ago. I believe Our Blessed MOTHER brought me back to Her SON. LOVE the MOTHER, LOVE THE SON. LOVE THE SON, LOVE the MOTHER. O, MAY THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST COVER US, save us ( a part of that Devotion is on RU-vid!!!) 🙏🩸🙏 P S I never heard of the “telephone game”. I did hear that how or why would so many earlier Jewish/Christians give up their lives to yrs and yrs of tortuous deaths, if they did not believe with reason. I am surprised you did not mention the “Q” source… Thank you for your enlightened lecture 🙏

This is such a blessing! Thank you!

Very informative. Thank You Dr. pitre

Amazing. Loved it! Great talk. Looking forward to watch the next part 😍

Wow. Thanks be to God for this presentation!

Thank you Dr.Pitre!

Such a blessing that this channel just showed up this morning! When the Spirit moves, it is with sublime purpose. I welcome this with an open heart to learn anything and everything about my Faith, I may not actually know more than a ‘hand me down ‘ from my parents and grand parents. So I thank God for this . 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

Looking forward to the next video in this series.

Production is on POINT!

Thank you so much for uploading this. Many greetings from a Christian in Sweden. Bless you all

Your are Awesome Brother 🙏 Love your View the way you break it down getting a clearer understanding 🕊 I will always remain Teachable ! Amen 🙏

Amazing. Loved the presentation . Thank you Sir Brant Pitre

Very well produced

Great lecture.

Fantastic book and presentation.

Wow! Thank you so much for this presentation. Very easy to understand. I am glad that I found this channel! Thanks!

The gospels....it wasn't the 'telephone game'! Watch to learn more!

Thank you

Thank you!

Precioso, con mucha profundidad! gracias!

This is so interesting

Thank you 💙🙏🏼✝️

I have the classes and really recommend the book.

Very good. Presenter makes very logical arguments.

Wow! Incredible standard here, every part of this is brilliant.

When I was in the seminary, I asked that exact question and was told "Because the Infallible Church says Jesus is the only true God." I was then told anyone who questions his faith shouldn't become a priest. So, it gives me great joy to hear you address that exact question: Why should I believe in Jesus?

If skeptics apply the same level of criticism to any other historical figure, based on the same judgements they pass on the the ONE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, world history and historical figures, both older and younger to JESUS CHRIST, could not be believed. ♥️🙏✝️👍

Please put the entire lecture series on the authorship of the Gospels on RU-vid.

There is a major difference between the telephone game and the gospel stories. In the game, the story greatly changes whereas the Gospels are consistent - no dramatic change.

Did you just say in Denver?😁 I didn't know that

Thanks for that. I watched the whole series. I really enjoyed it and took away any lingering doubts I had about the Gospels being folklore or fiction and that they are the best source of reliable history and biography of the period that we have.

Does anybody know if the next episode to this is out?

Dear Dr. Pitre where I can watch the next episode?

where is part 2 of this?

Take all of these programs of my phone please thank you

Brant Pitre should debate bart Ehrman, he stumped him in a Q&A! I’d love to see an hour long discussion, Brant has the facts to pick apart bart’s “theories”

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Where is the other part?

Where is the part where he talks about Thomas?

They were all inspired by the holy spirit! So if they could speak different tongues surely they could write illiterate or not thru the holy spirit!!

I always thought that Bart Ehrman was a charlatan. Now it is confirmed.

In Australia, we use to call the telephone game, " Chinese whispers"

They hired scribes who knew how to write. Scribes were needed by almost everyone. Typists used to be needed as well. Now, we all type ourselves. Really, how obvious is this?

Dios permita lo pudieran traducir no solo este video sino también sus libros

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 🕊

Thought he was a carpenter hunting men.

Interesting. The Gospels agree sufficiently to show their truth, but differ sufficiently in details to rule out either collusion or copying. John was written a few decades later than the others, by which time Matthew, Mark and Luke [the Synoptic Gospels] were already well known in the Christian communities, which is why , prior to his account of Palm Sunday, he includes little which is also in the Synoptics, except where needed to contextualise or chronologise. For example he does not repeat the words of the Last Supper, but gives extra details, such as the washing of the feet. I fully believe the Four Gospels are both accurate and inspired. Greetings from GB. Also what do you think of the idea that Mark's parents were the owners of the Upper Room where the Last Supper was held and where the Apostles waited between the Ascension and Pentecost; and that Mark was the boy who lost his coat in Mk 14:51-52?

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Gospel ??.

Liberal German scholars made up analyses that were self-contradictory: a). The Synoptics copied from each other from a putative Q source, but b). The apparent contradictions between the Synoptics prove that the authors made up historical details. Which is it, a made up conspiracy story or did each author independently believe the story as he wrote it?

So I have a question... if Luke was a companion of Paul, how did he get all of the info to write the gospel if Paul wasn't there? He must have been a disciple of Jesus while he was still alive, no?

So if you had to go to grad school to realize they were teaching you incorrectly for at least 4 years and still are teaching young adults wrong. That does explain so much

I recently listened to Dr. Richard Carrier and he is adamant that Jesus did not exist. Is there strong evidence against this position?

So the earliest copies of the Gospels we have are not anonymous even the fragments? How exactly does that work? I think the oldest frgment we have of any of the Gospels is of Mark and it is about the size of a credit card and it certainly doesn't have a title. Also, none of the Gospels claim to be written by a particular author. Just read them. There are also events described in each in which even IF Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote the original Gospels they weren't witnesses to. They don't give the sources for where they learned about the events that happened before Jesus was born, him as a teenager in the temple or when he was being tempted by Satan. How did they know about what exactly was said during Jesus's trial and what Pilate said to him? We have Gospels that are attributed to Mary and even Judas, does that mean that they actually wrote them? If we have no anonymous copies then why is the majority view that the original Gospels were anonymous and his view the minority view? Bart Ehrman and many other Biblical scholars can read Ancient Greek and many other languages. He has the copes and fragments listed but does he actually show them in his book? I am currently reading a book about Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson where when he is talking about a drawing or painting of Leonardo's, he actually SHOWS you the drawing or painting so you can see exactly what he is talking about. This would be helpful when you are talking about things like this and when you hold the minority view on this. I've ordered this book and look forward to reading it but I had a feeling this wouldn't be in there and it appears that it isn't. Also, most scholars believe there was a source that at least Matthew and Luke used for their Gospels called Q. If that is the case then I really don't see the argument he made where he said if you are going to make up a Gospel, why would you attribute it to Mark or Luke. Well, you can't really attribute it to Peter since the Bible claims that he was "unlettered" or illiterate and it would be strange to see a Greek book written by Peter even if he could write so you are kind of limited in who you can attribute these books to. Also, I thought that the tradition was that Mark the Evangelist was the writer of the book of Mark. He was a companion of Peter but wasn't an apostle so he wouldn't have been an eyewitness to many of these events anyway. Same with Luke. This is the problem when you assume that the books HAVE to be written by certain people and they HAVE to be eyewitness accounts. The books themselves don't claim to be eyewitness accounts. They are written as narrative stories which is why we see events described like the angels telling the women that they will become pregnant with John the Baptist and Jesus and we see the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness which no one else was there to witness. Let me guess, they heard the stories from others...well that doesn't make them eyewitness accounts then does it?! They are at best second hand accounts and that is at best. Oui, I was hoping this would be better than it was. My expectations for the book are greatly decreased as well.

James White destroyed Bart Ehrman on the topic who wrote the 4 gospel's!

The Apostle, Peter, was a black Jew.

So this is a vision happening in heaven? Thus, Mary is in already in heaven, if that logic holds good, the dragon (devil) is in heaven too, is that right? Mary having 12 crowns and logical conclusion arrived she is queen? "fiery-red dragon with ten horns and seven heads, each wearing a royal crown. He was wearing seven royal crowns" Rev. 12:3. So can you conclude; devil is either a king or queen? The influence of false teachers in the church (Matt. 24:11; 2 Tim. 4:3). We can’t judge the human heart, but we can recognise apostates by their fruit - that is, their doctrines and lifestyles (Matt. 7:15-20).

You need to review your assumptions that any of the Apostles were illiterate. There is evidence in the old Testament that non-Jews expected average Jewish men to be literate. Not learned, but literate.

Same principle would of the telephone analogy would apply to todays scholars , I know where youre going with this ha ha ha. Make some money by selling your bs discovery of the telephone story that somehow does not apply from ancient scholars to present day scholars

So, let me get this straight; this man keeps stressing historical evidence, which one should for this historical inquiry, yet fails to even mention the fact that every manuscript is a secondary historical source and fails to even mention the "synoptic problem"? Wow, that is quite telling.

1. There is no historical evidence for an anonymous collection of Gospel sayings referred to as Q., an abbreviation for Quelle (German for 'source') and therefore this speculative theory should be quelled. 2. From the Catholic News Agency, Vatican City, January 21, 2022: Pope Francis on Friday officially declared St. Irenaeus of Lyon as the 37th Doctor of the Church, with the title “Doctor Unitatis” (“Doctor of Unity”). “May the doctrine of such a great Master encourage more and more the path of all the Lord's disciples towards full communion,” the pope wrote in a decree signed on Jan. 21. 3. From Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130 - c. 202 AD), Book III, Chapter One, Paragraph One (quoting from carm.org): "Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church. After their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did also hand down to us in writing what had been preached by Peter. Luke also, the companion of Paul, recorded in a book the Gospel preached by him. Afterwards, John, the disciple of the Lord, who also had leaned upon His breast, did himself publish a Gospel during his residence at Ephesus in Asia." 4. In agreement with/supporting the testimony of recently designated Doctor of Unity of the Church St. Irenaeus of Lyons are, prior to, Bishop Papias of Hieropolis (c. 60 - c. 130 AD), and afterwards 3rd century church historian Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, along with 3rd century theologian Origen: four ancient witnesses to both (A) the historicity of the four Gospels and (B) the chronological ordering of their authorship as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.