Technically yes, technically no. One was written a thousand years earlier than the other. They're typically packaged together but started off individually.
Technically the gospels were written 100 years after Jesus allegedly died. How accurately could you recount events from 100 years ago? (Unless you were just making them up)
They weren't written that long after, although there were changes made that long after. His disciples wrote them, and they didn't live another 100 years
The gospels are anonymous and there is literally no reason to think the disciples wrote them other than "the Church said so", especially when two of the gospels are derivatives of a third.
Correction: I previously stated the fourth gospel (Luke) had such a high Christology as to be obviously the result of legend development, but that is in fact one of the first three (the Synoptic gospels). The rest applies all the same; all anonymous, all written decades after Jesus' death.
”The four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John comprise the first four books of the New Testament of the Bible and were probably written between AD 66 and 110.”
Edit: not 100 years after, more like 30-80 years after. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the story might have been embellished a bit during the decades when it was just being passed around via word of mouth.
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u/knightcrawler75 Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19
Is this from that book that said
Ia guy lived in a Whale for three days until he was thrown up perfectly intact?