Dating Of The Gospels. There are others who will argue vehemently that the earliest gospel must have been written after 70 ad. If our sources were written very late, after all the eyewitness of jesus had died, they could have more easily altered and added to the historical account.

Of the gospels however, synoptic gospels plus the 4 th gospel, they begin with the book of mark, the earliest of all the gospels. Evidence for an early dating of the four gospels. Since it is generally agreed that mark was one of the sources used by matthew and luke, it follows that if mark was written around ad 70, then the other gospels must have.

Trip up one, and they all collapse.

The arguments for the traditional dating of the gospels have been aptly compared to a line of drunks reeling arm in arm down the street. The simple fact of the matter is that nobody really knows when the gospels were written, and the 70 ad “early date” is attributable to nothing more than the idea that jesus could not have predicted the destruction of the temple. Along the translation process of original hebrew script into christian greek script, alterations, mistranslations, interpretative variants, fabrications and misquotations wrote. Let's consider conservative christians’ early dating of the gospels to see if the reasoning holds up.