
Eyewitness Testimony in the Gospels
Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?
Engage with the debate on whether we can trust the Bible. Consider the evidence for and against the reliability and trustworthiness of the Bible.
Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?
Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.
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?
Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?
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'.