The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.

A day conference on New Testament historical apologetics affirms the reliability of the New Testament using new lines of evidence.

A brief account of some of the real history and real people to be found in the New Testament.

Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?

This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.