Eyewitnesses don't explain the Gospels. But this does.

VIDEOS MENTIONED Proof the gospels copy each other! -    • Matthew copied Mark word-for-word. Here's ...   The Q Gospel hypothesis -    • What is the Q Gospel? (The Lost Gospel Beh...   The testimony of Papias doesn't work -    • The Earliest Witness to the Gospels is a M...   This verse convinced me Luke knew Josephus -    • Luke knew Josephus. This is the verse that...   Origins of the transfiguration? -    • 2 Peter might quote a banned apocalypse. O...   The resurrection of Romulus -    • I tried an apologetic method. And it prove...   Jesus' birth stories were lifted from John the Baptist! -    • Where did Luke's nativity come from? John ...   Jesus' sayings evolved -    • Jesus' words kept changing. This Gospel fr...   Paul doesn't know Judas-    • I preached on Judas. Then I realized Paul ...   SCHOLARS Other Resurrections (Richard C. Miller) -    • Gospel Writers COPIED Other Resurrections!...   Did Luke Use Josephus (Steve Mason) -    • I Interviewed a Josephus Expert. Luke Neve...   The gospels are literary compositions (Robyn Walsh) -    • Gospel Communities are LITERALLY based on ...   *My Apollonius of Tyana excerpt is from Vit. Ap. 4.45 (Translated in Klauck's, The Religious Context of Early Christianity) - Do the Gospels require eyewitness testimony to explain their origins? In this video, I walk through the actual evidence for how the Gospels were composed — starting from what's most certain and working toward what's debated. After a year of studying Gospel origins, interviewing scholars like Steve Mason and Mark Goodacre, and tracing the sources behind Matthew, Mark, and Luke, I lay out what I think the evidence actually shows — and why eyewitness accounts aren't the best explanation. We'll cover: Why the Synoptic Gospels copying each other tells us how Gospel writers actually worked How the Septuagint shaped Gospel narratives (Herod & Pharaoh, the Transfiguration & Moses, Elizabeth & Hannah) Evidence that Luke used Josephus as a source Greco-Roman literary parallels: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Romulus, Vespasian's healing miracles, and divine men traditions like Apollonius of Tyana The hypothetical Q source, the Gospel of Thomas, and lost sayings traditions Why oral tradition ≠ eyewitness testimony Where eyewitnesses might fit — and how little is left for them to explain Eyewitnesses don't explain the Gospels. But this does. I spent a year studying gospels. & still can't find evidence for this More academic Sources "Spit in your eye" (Jesus and Vespasian) - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Substack - https://substack.com/@cjcornthwaite Patreon -   / footnotefamous   📱 FOLLOW FOR MORE YouTube: @cjcornthwaite Instagram: @cjcornthwaite Website: cjcornthwaite.com Email: [email protected] 🎙️ FOOTNOTE FAMOUS (MY PODCAST) Conversations with the world’s top scholars of the Bible and Christian origins. 🔗https://www.footnotefamous.com/ OR Listen on your favorite streaming platform ᯤ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4lSzQzT... Apple Music - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Audible - https://www.audible.ca/podcast/Footno... SUPPORT THE CHANNEL YouTube Memberships - C. J. Cornthwaite - YouTube Book a 1:1 Conversation With Me: https://www.cjcornthwaite.com/book-on... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Do we need eyewitnesses to explain the Gospels? 2:05 The Gospels copy each other 4:07 Retelling Septuagint stories 5:22 Luke copies Josephus 6:04 Mythological tropes & Roman parallels 7:31 Lost sources & sayings traditions 8:51 Divine men & literary creation 12:13 So where do eyewitnesses actually fit?