Do you find it odd that not one of Jesus' contemporaries wrote about him ?

Question

The gospels were were writtenbetween 40 and 160years after Jesus' death.

Why is it that not a single contemporary of Jesus saw fit to record his action ? Not one !

Here was a guy that was supposedly raising people from the dead and changing water to wine etc.

Yet not one person who lived along side him saw fit to chronicle these events.

Surely there should be hundreds of accounts wriiten about these feats.

Even the Romans who recorded events in detail did not mention Jesus or his actions once in their records.

Why do you think that the first stories about Jesus appear around eighty years after his supposed death ?

This is like me writing about someone who died in 1927 but without the use of tv, newspapers etc...... only on third and fourth hand accounts.

So... does anyone find it odd that no one (who lived at the same time) wrote about a man who could raise people from the dead ?

Oldguy. you are of course correct. I don't believe it. i think it's fair to say I've already accepted this.

oldtruth..I've seen that list before. It is simply lifted from one of the many fundie websites. If you could give me the exact titles of the pieces they wrote and where I could get them, I would be most pleased.

Answer 1

Matthew was a tax collector that Jesus went home with.
Mark was an Apostle chosen BY Jesus
Luke was a companion of Paul. He was in a good position to collect first hand information from many contemporary Believers.
John was the Apostle that Jesus 'loved'.
Jude was the brother of James, an Apostle chosen by Jesus..
How are these not contemporaries?

Answer 2

What is this? What have you to say for your grave mistake here? Indeed there were many such contemporaries, many,many listed in the Bible, that wrote of the person Jesus
See here I have pasted some for you here:

1: James The Son Of Zebedee - On The Kingdoms Of The World
2: Anna The Mother Of Mary - On The Birth Of Jesus
3: Assaph Called The Orator Of Tyre - On The Speech Of Jesus
4: Mary Magdalene - On Meeting Jesus For The First Time
5: Philemon A Greek Apothecary - On Jesus The Master Physician
6: Simon Who Was Called Peter - When He And His Brother Were Called
7: Caiaphas - The High Priest
8: Joanna The Wife Of Herod's Steward - On Children
9: Rafca - The Bride Of Cana
10: A Persian Philosopher In Damascus - Of Ancient Gods And New
11: David One Of His Followers - Jesus The Practical
12: Luke - On Hypocrites
13: Matthew - The Sermon On The Mount
14: John The Son Of Zebedee - On The Various Appellations Of Jesus
15: A Young Priest Of Capernaum - Of Jesus The Magician
16: A Rich Levi In The Neighborhood Of The Nazarene - Jesus The carpenter
17: A Shepherd In South Lebanon - A Parable
18: John The Baptist - He Speaks In Prison To One Of His Disciples
19: Joseph Of Arimathea - On The Primal Aims Of Jesus
20: Nathaniel - Jesus Was Not Meek
21: Saba Of Antioch - On Saul Of Tarsus
22: Salome To A Woman Friend - A Desire Unfilfiled
23: Rachael A Woman Disciple - Jesus The Vision And The Man
24: Cleopas Of Bethroune - On The Law Of The Prophets
25: Naaman Of The Gadarenes - On The Death Of Stephen
26: Thomas - On The Forefather Of His Doubts
27: Elmadam The Logician - Jesus The Outcast
28: One Of The Marys - On His Sadness And His Smile
29: Rumanous A Greek Poet - Jesus The Poet
30: Levi A Disciple - On Those Who Would Confound Jesus
31: A Widow In Galilee - Jesus The Cruel
32: Judas The Cousin Of Jesus - On the Death of John the Baptist
33: A Man From The Desert - On the Money-changers
34: Peter - On the Morrow of His Followers
35: Melachi Of Babylon, An Astronomer - The Miracles of Jesus
36: A Philospher - On Wonder and Beauty
37: Uriah An Old Man Of Nazareth - He Was a Stranger in Our Midst
38: Nicodemus The Poet - On Fools And Jugglers
39: Joseph Of Arimathea - The Two Streams in Jesus' Heart
40: Georgus Of Beirut - On Strangers
41: Mary Magdalen - His Mouth Was Like the Heart of a Pomegranate
42: Jotham Of Nazareth To A Roman - On Living and Being
43: Ephrain Of Jericho - The Other Wedding-Feast
44: Barca A Merchant Of Tyre - On Buying and Selling
45: Phumiah The High Priestess Of Sidon - An Invocation
46: Benjamin The Scribe - Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
47: Zacchaeus - On the Fate of Jesus
48: Jonathan - Among the Water Lilies
49: Hannah Of Bethsaida - She Speaks of Her Father's Sister
50: Mannasseh - On the Speech and Gesture of Jesus
51: Jephtha Of Caedarea - A Man Weary of Jesus
52: John The Beloved Disciple - On Jesus the Word
53: Mannus The Pompeian To A Greek - On the Semitic Deity
54: Pontius Pilatus - Of Eastern Rites and Cults
55: Bartholamew In Ephesus - On Slaves and Outcasts
56: Matthew - On Jesus by a Prison Wall
57: Andrew - On Prostitutes
58: A Rich Man - On Possessions
59: John At Patmos - Jesus the Gracious
60: Peter - On the Neighbor
61: A Cobbler In Jerusalem - A Neutral
62: Suzzanah Of Nazareth - Of the Youth and Manhood of Jesus
63: Joseph Surnamed Justus - Jesus the Wayfarer
64: Philip - And When He Died All Mankind Died
65: Birbarah Of Yammouni - On Jesus the Impatient
66: Pilat's Wife To A Roman Lady
67: A Man Outside Of Jerusalem - Of Judas
68: Sarkis An Old Greek Shepherd, Called The Madman - Jesus and Pan
69: Annas The High Priest - On Jesus the Rabble
70: A Woman, One Of Mary's Neighbors - A Lamentation
71: Ahaz The Portly - The Keeper of the Inn
72: Barabbas - The Last Words of Jesus
73: Claudius A Roman Sentinel - Jesus the Stoic
74: James The Brother Of The Lord - The Last Supper
75: Simon The Cyrene - He who Carried the Cross
76: Cyborea - The Mother of Judas
77: The Woman In Byblos - A Lamentation
78: Mary Magdalene (Thirty Years Later) - On the Resurrection of the Spirit
79: A Man From Lebanon - Nineteen Centuries Afterward

Answer 3

EXCUSE ME?? Matthew,Mark and Luke (Mark and Luke were Apostles of Peter's)( Matthew also known as Levi the tax collector was an Apostle of Jesus)were all written before the destruction of the Temple in 70AD. The Books written by Peter an eyewitness were written before his death in 65 AD. John also an Apostle of Jesus's And who was at the cross and took the responsibility of Jesus's mother Mary,wrote his 5 books in the 80's AD. Paul who wrote the rest of the New Testament was not an eyewitness but he was an Apostle and his books were written before his death in 64AD Christ was crucified and resurrected in 33AD.

Answer 4

This message may be lost among all the false teaching of these answers. The Gospel of Jesus Christ (the actual words he spoke) are the Words of God the Father.

Jesus said; the words of two witnesses are true, but the words are not theirs, they are the words of Him that sent him. Jesus said; the words I speak are not mine, I speak what I have heard of the Father. And as I hear the Father speak, so I also speak.

Jesus told the Apostles I will not leave you comfortless, that I will send you another teacher and that the Holy Ghost will bring to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you.

Jesus told the Apostles to buy a sword and take a script of all things that he had spoken unto them, and to wait until the Holy Ghost comes to them.

Jesus knew that they did not truly believe in their hearts, Peter was only interested in who would be the greatest. Jesus warned them about using their own words, but still they did. but when they first stared preaching they only preached the Words spoken by Jesus, and when tribulation and division arose they started using their own words.

Jesus said Isaiah did come first, meaning that John the Baptist and Isaiah were one and the same, Jesus reincarnated many from the dead as he did Lazarus, but Peter did not overcome temptation and bowed down to Satan to become head ( the greatest) of the Catholic church.

It was not until after they died and were reincarnated as spoke of by Jesus, did some of them truly believe Jesus.

Read all concerning Peter and Judas then with a new mind and heart answer to yourself who Jesus said betrayed him

Answer 5

Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Found in 1896. First published in 1955.

Gospel of Thomas Found in 1897 and 1903 in Egypt.

You do know that much information was burned? What are forefathers thought to bury is all that we have left.

Answer 6

Actually they did. His disciples wrote of Him and His teachings. Some of them were actually written my someone who traveled with a disciple and recorded teachings and stories of His life. The new testament was written over a period of hundreds of years because disciples of disciples added books. That all the disciples who scattered after He left earth all wrote the same stuff although with different purposes tells you it must be true. The others like Paul, Titus, Timothy,etc. expanded His word to teach us want was meant for us in our everyday lives.

The fact that every one of these men and more who knew Him gave there lives for Him and His teachings should tell you they held Him in the highest esteem

Answer 7

They may well have.
A lot of writing of that period was destroyed or ignored.
His followers were not the most popular of the period many probably went into hiding or kept quite.
Kinda like we who support the president now,keeping a low profile till all the hating is over.
We will then speak with what we feel is the truth without the wrath.

Answer 8

Umm, Matthew was an Apostle of Jesus, as was John.

Why would a mere eighty years be enough for someone to forget the Son of God? You think you'd EVER forget?

Answer 9

Good point. I think people wrote about Him inspired by God. Nowadays, we still have people writing about Him and His teachings through mediums. My religion is Spiritism and we still receive many messages from the Spiritual World, and messages from God. There are several contemporary books with Jesus and spirits' messages.

Peace!

Answer 10

Who says that the gospels were written many years after his death? How come it is 2,000 years after his death that people like you come up with these "amazing discoveries"? Why don't you just live with the reality that you don't believe it.