Christians, as per you claim "so called" gospel writers John and Matthew were really Jesus disciples?

Question

If they were really Jesus' disciples, why isn’t the ascension of Jesus (pbuh) to heaven mentioned in Matthew and John?
It was such an important event to Christians and why did they never mention about that in their Gospels?

A Logical question needs a Logical reply and the Only Logical and Resonable Reply would be that the "so called" Gospel Writers John and Matthew were not Jesus' disciples. The disciples were different people !

Answer 1

Do you expect them to agree with you Educator? From the number of replies you get, you can see that more and more Christians are evading the question. That means you are right, most of us are right. John and Matthew, the gospel writers, were NOT the Jesus Disciples !

Answer 2

Greek was the widely used language of that time and place. And there does seem to be evidence that Matthew had been originally written in Hebrew, since it was directed towards the early Jewish-backgrounded believers. But, since the church quickly spread beyond the immediate areas of language and culture, of course it went into the more common language...Greek! You are correct that God is not the author of confusion...I can see you ARE confused about a few things. First, the crucifixion really happened. You seem to doubt because of some supposed differences in the Gospel narrations. Leaving things out? I suppose the One that inspired the writers chose not to repeat Himself. And you know you can only go on what has been written, not on what has NOT been written. I'm short on time, so I will close with this- the council in 325 A.D. did NOT decide what to believe, did NOT "make" the doctrines up... the purpose was to determine the doctrines that ALREADY were, the doctrines that were clearly taught by scripture, and held in common by all the non-heretical believers. There were heretics then, and there are now. Don't you think an ALMIGHTY GOD can preserve His Word and its Meaning for a mere 2000+ years? I do not believe He is the one that is confused.

Answer 3

Matthew and John were in fact disciples of Jesus. All of the four gospels are not written exactly the same. If they were, why would there need to be four books exactly the same? The four gospels are four different people's accounts of their time with Jesus. Just because these two chose not to include this event in their writings does not mean they weren't disciples. There were many more people present at the ascension of Jesus, but they didn't all write a book.

Answer 4

Matthew (also called Levi) One of the 12 apostles (Matthew 9:9, Matthew 10:3, Mark 2:14, Luke 5:29, Acts 1:13)
John the beloved apostle, son of Zebedee (Matthew 4:21, Mark 13:23, Luke 5:10, Luke 9:49, John 13:23, 19:26, 20:2, 21:7, 21:20)
You should read Matthew and John again. They both bear witness to his death, rise and Ascension. When it comes down to it, the testimony in John 20:17 is quite clear. Matthew is also, as to his Resurrection.

Answer 5

None of the gospels record the ascension of Jesus. All four end at his resurrection. That is the point at which the "gospel" is complete.

The ascension of Jesus is told in the book of Acts, which is the history of his followers. That is because the ascension represents the transfer of power from Christ to his followers. So the logical place to record the event is not at the end of his life, but at the beginning of the church's life.

So the placement of the record of the event has no bearing on the authorship of the gospels.

Answer 6

Because the gospels are an account of Jesus life as a man and go up to the point where He died. The Book of Acts tells us what happened to Him afterwards and also tells us that all the believers were there.

Answer 7

In order for this question to be logical, You will need to freshen up on your Bible study.

The very first page of The New Testament starts with Matthew, Start there....


there are 28 chapters in matthew, ending with the body of christ being missing from the tomb and his rise...

in John there is 21 chapters, ending with the him appearing too the disciples after death.

Answer 8

I'm not a christain but even I know the answer, first there were four gospels, you forgot Mark and Luke. Juke John and Matthew's are all very similar and deal with his teachings. It was Mark who accounted for his death and resurection because it was he who described the fabled last super where jesus said one of his discplies would betray him. And duh the odds of those men actually writting the gospels is very unlikely, the new testiment was written almost sixty years after his death, the orignial disciples would almost certainly be dead by then. Those names were just a pseudonymous names given, in fact all of them are just oral stories that had been floating around sixty years after his death, and then put down on paper they weren't written as things were happening. There is your logical answer, but you need to work on that question a bit.

Answer 9

Your assumption of what you have written is so ilogical that it is funny! What Bible school did you graduate from and how many hours of bible study have you completed?
Why was Moses the only prophet in the bible that listed all of the 10 Commandments in the book of Exodus?
Does this fact imply that Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekial, Jermiah
were not holy men? Does this imply that they had no knowledge of the 10 Commandments.
Jesus never lists all 10 in his conversations in the New Testament did he forget that there were 10?

Answer 10

Firstly it is not absaloutely certain that it was that John but I believe it was. Remember that the gospals weren't originally written to go in the bible an since they have been put in many of what they said has been translated and cut.