About Quote by Elaine Pagels

The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

“Paul also never quotes from Jesus's purported sermons and speeches, parables and prayers, nor does he mention Jesus's supernatural birth or any of his…

— D.M. Murdock

There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.

— Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

It's important, though, that there are not "four gospels." There is only one gospel: the good news of what God has done through Christ…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources,…

— Lee Strobel

“The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come…

— Frank Butcher

“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of…

— Alvar Ellegård

The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others…

— Richard Dawkins

“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that the canonical…

— N.T. Wright

The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that…

— John Drane

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of…

— N.T. Wright

“The very first surviving account of Jesus’s life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty…

— Bart D. Ehrman