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Who wrote the Gospels?

Church teaching

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In short: People who knew Him, or knew the apostles: some of the very first believers, who couldn’t keep it to themselves. CCC 515

The answer, in writing

Church teaching

The Catechism says the Gospels were written by men who were among the first to have the faith and wanted to share it with others. CCC 515

The Church holds firmly that the four Gospels faithfully hand on what Jesus really did and taught, first preached by the apostles and then written down. CCC 126

Our words

Not committees centuries later. People who knew Jesus, or knew the apostles, and couldn’t keep quiet about what they’d seen.

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How we know · 2 Catechism paragraphs
  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 126, 515 (official text on vatican.va).

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