Late dating of the gospels

The historical reliability of the Gospels refers to the reliability and historic character of the four New Testament gospels as historical documents. Some believe that all four canonical gospels meet the five criteria for historical reliability; and others say that little in the gospels is considered to be historically reliable. According to the majority viewpoint, the gospels of Matthew , Mark , and Luke , collectively referred to as the Synoptic Gospels , are the primary sources of historical information about Jesus and of the religious movement he founded. Historians often study the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles when studying the reliability of the gospels, as Acts was seemingly written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke.

If the Gospel of Matthew was written after 70 C. For example, in Matt Is there any evidence this parable was added to a pre C. Three pieces of evidence have usually been advanced to demonstrate that Matthew wrote after 70 C.

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