Who wrote the gospels or actually walked with Jesus?

[pagal]

Hello RR friends....

I have a dear cousin who is just beginning to research the bible for the first time and loves lots of questions. I have a tough one...

"Heard a great sermon today and the guest speaker and he said all the writers of the N.T. he believes John was the only one who actually walked with Jesus. He was elderly when he wrote but the rich description of Jesus could only be writen by someone who was with him..

Questions:
* Was John the only original 12 discipals to write about the words of Jesus?

[kgreen20]

Matthew, another apostle, also wrote about Jesus, and He quoted some of Jesus' words. He's the one who quoted the Sermon on the Mount, don't forget.

Mark and Luke, on the other hand, apparently got their information secondhand.

[CJ65]

Mark and Luke did not rely on second hand accounts, but recorded the accounts of eye witnesses. They were very careful.

OOPS, off topic, sorry! => Our Lord's ministry on earth touched thousands. His public deeds were well known - even to the point of being mentioned in Jewish documents of the period - and if Mark's Gospel or Luke's research were wrong they could have easily been disputed.

[MasterDummy]

The Holy Spirit told all the writers in the Bible what to write, who were the eye witnesses for Genesis for Moses to write?
Luke, was a gentile, become a disciple of the apostles after Jesus rose again.

[lmenningen]

Mark and Luke did not rely on second hand accounts, but recorded the accounts of eye witnesses...whoops off topic, too, but both are one and the same: recording accounts of eye witnesses is, in fact, a second hand account. First hand account would mean they themselves were the witnesses.

[kgreen20]

That's right. That's exactly right, and that's what I meant.

[jc513]

Mark was also a eye witness, not to everything he had written, or as one of Jesus's apostles, but was an eye witness, to such as the Last Supper, Cruxificion, and Resurrection.

[CJ65]

Mark and Luke, on the other hand, apparently got their information secondhand.

Mark and Luke did not rely on second hand accounts, but recorded the accounts of eye witnesses. They were very careful.


whoops off topic, too, but both are one and the same: recording accounts of eye witnesses is, in fact, a second hand account. First hand account would mean they themselves were the witnesses.

I simply asserted that Luke and Mark did not use second hand sources. If you'd like to start a thread in another section and discuss, that'd be fine.