Eyewitness Testimony in the Gospels
Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?
Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?
This video considers how long it took before Jesus's first followers came to believe that he was the Son of God.
Did Jesus claim or imply that he was anything more than a prophet? Or did his followers transform him into the Son of God many years later?
Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?
Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
Do the Gospels give us any indication that they are using eyewitness testimony? Richard Bauckham examines some of the minor characters in…
The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.
This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.