when was MARK, MATHEW, LUKE, JOHN written?

Question

is the exact year known????

and which one of these didn't met Jesus?

Thank you

Answer 1

no exact year, 55 to 100.

Mark was probably first, with Matthew around the same time. Luke seems to have been the last of the synoptics (Matt, Mark, Luke) but likely written before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70. John seems to have been written last, with proposed dates in the 90-100 range. Since we have manuscript evidence of John copied around 200, it has the shortest writing to oldest copy time of any book.

Answer 2

To answer the second part of the question first, it is inaccurate to suppose that individual people wrote the gospels; this smacks of the modern understanding of authorship and the modern tendency to attribute ideas to individuals. In the ancient world, this was not the case; the authorship of the gospels is much more nebulous. Certainly, there were people called Matthew (Levi), a tax collector called by Jesus, and a Luke who was both a historian and physician who met Paul, and a disciple John and a John Mark. Whether these people wrote the gospels that bore their name is up for dispute. In the ansient world, ideas were attributed to the person who "invented" the spirit of the idea. People who wrote did not sign their names, but rather the name of the founder of their community. Case in point, sone of the "Pauline" epistles were written in the late fist century, well after Paul died. That's not to say that such epistles are bereft of authority, but rather that the tradition Paul started was continued by his disciples, and they attributed the writing to Paul.

As for the gospels, the Markan primacy is considered the most probable; its date is somewhere between 65 and 70. Passages in Mark dealing with the destruction of Jerusalem suggest a composition at this date; the Jewish insurrection against the Romans began in 66. John Mark, according to Eusabius, was Peter's interpreter, and if John Mark was in fact the author of Mark's gospel, it stands to reason that John Mark got most of his material from Peter.

Matthew and Luke are acceptaed as having a contemporary date of composition between 70 and 80. The both used Mark as a source, in addition to a traditional source containing sayings of Jesus, called Quelle. Additionally, both Matthew and Luke seem to have material unique only to their respective gospels, so it seems as though they have their own unique sources within the tradition. If Matthew the tax collector is the author of Matthew's gospel, then he did in fact meet Jesus and was ont of his disciples. Luke was a Gentile and did not meet Jesus; he met Paul in Troas.

John's gospel was the last to be composed, between 90 and 100. The Johannine tradition is remakably different from those of the other three, and John's Gospel is more theological in its scope and embraces a high, descending christology. Because the disciple John would have been very old by 90, he is most likely not its actual author, although John is certainly the spiritual ancestor of the Johannine author.

Dating ancient manuscripts is difficult because we have no "original" gospels or letters and we must use the context within and without the letter to date it approximately. Source criticism does this, but it's not an exact science; it's more of an art.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

The Gospel of Mark is traditionally the second of the New Testament Gospel, ascribed to Mark the Evangelist. It narrates the life of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his resurrection, but it concentrates particularly on the last week of his life. Usually dated between 60 and 80 .

Matthew, Gospel according to, 1st book of the New Testament. Scholars conjecture that it was written for the church at Antioch toward the end of the 1st cent.

Luke was written between 59 to 62 CE. Physical evidence, secular writings, and logic are used.

68-69 or 90 A.D.? Some suggest that because in John 5:2 John states that "there is" a pool, that John wrote this book before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., but after the garden of Gethsemane was destroyed (see John 18:1) by the Roman siege. Others believe that John wrote the gospel long afterwards, towards the end of his life.

Answer 4

The general consensus among Bible scholars:

Mark - Dated between 60-80 AD. Mark supposedly was Peter's assistant.

Matthew - Has been dated anywhere from 60-100, although generally agreed upon that whoever wrote it (it is doubtful that the actual "apostle" Matthew wrote it) borrowed extensively from Mark.

Luke - supposed to have been written by an assistant of Paul (and may actually have been) between 60-100.


John - between 70-100 (probably closer to 100). John has additional, dramatic miracles attributed to Jesus that were likely added last so that Greeks would be more apt to accept it. John is radically different from the other three, almost solely here is the "trinity" developed......the other Gospels focus less directly on Jesus being "the son of God".



It is very likely that none of the authors met Jesus, although I assume the author of Mark (if it really were Peter's assistant) may have.

Answer 5

The exact dates are a matter of speculation, but due to the fact that the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD was never mentioned in any of them, it's likely they were all written prior to that date.

Matthew and John certainly knew Jesus, as they were both apostles.

It is speculated that Mark is the young man who ran from the temple guards, losing his garment, in the Garden of Gethsemane. If that's true, than Mark also would have met Christ. In any case, Mark was a scribe for Peter, who certainly knew Jesus.

Luke makes no claim to ever having met Jesus, but since Luke was a scribe of Paul, and Luke had access to a number of eye witnesses to Christ, the most significant being the Virgin Mary, his accounts are both vivid and complete.

Answer 6

The consensus among scholars is that the book of Mark was written between 50 and 60 A.D. The author is referenced several times in the New Testament starting in the book of Acts, chapters 12 and 13, in Colossians 4:10, and finally in 2 Timothy 4:11. The book of Mark was probably written in Italy, and perhaps even Rome. This book has 16 chapters and is the shortest book of the four gospels. However, the details of the events and miracles of Jesus in this book are consistent with the other three gospels; Matthew, Luke and John.

Matthew was one of the 12 apostles that were with Jesus Christ throughout His public ministry on earth. The consensus among scholars is that this book in the Bible was written between 50 and 70 A.D.

Luke's Gospel focuses on Christ's teachings about salvation and Christ's fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies regarding the coming Messiah. It includes the beautiful birth story of the baby Jesus and the miracle conception by God. Bible scholars generally agree that the Gospel of Luke was written between 59 and 70 A.D. The author is referenced in Colossians 4:14 by the Apostle Paul.

The author of this gospel was the disciple John, one of the twelve disciples that followed Jesus Christ during His earthly ministry. The author identifies himself in the last chapter of the gospel: "This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true." (John 21:24). John was also known as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (see John 13:23, 19:26, and 21:7.). Perhaps this explains the uniqueness of John's record of the life of Jesus. The book is filled with first hand accounts of experiences with Jesus Christ that occurred during Christ's 33 years of life on earth. Scholars generally accept that the Gospel of John was written between 50 and 85 A.D.

Answer 7

Between 35 and 80 After Christ

They all met Jesus

Answer 8

All of them met Jesus and it was written around AD 33, which is when the church was established.

Answer 9

The authors of those books are largely unknown, but they were written well after Jesus' death.

Suggest reading "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman.

Answer 10

Exact years are not known

Its not proven that any of them met Jesus. 'Luke' clearly admits it in the first few verses of the book.