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Their aim was to confirm Christian faith ( Lk. Neither the evangelists nor their first readers engaged in historical analysis.

To provide a good overview of the majority opinion about the Gospels, the Oxford Annotated Bible (a compilation of multiple scholars summarizing dominant scholarly trends for the last 150 years) states (p. The public is often not familiar, however, with the complex reasons and methodology that scholars use to reach well-supported conclusions about critical issues, such as assessing the authorial traditions for ancient texts. The traditional authors of the canonical Gospels-Matthew the tax collector, Mark the attendant of Peter, Luke the attendant of Paul, and John the son of Zebedee-are doubted among the majority of mainstream New Testament scholars.