41 Who Wrote the Gospels? Probably Not Who You Thought.

How do we know that Mark wrote the gospel of Mark? Follow the thread of that claim through history: from decades of oral history to Papias the historian through copyists to Eusebius (another historian) through more copyists to a translation in the ancient language of Syriac written centuries after Jesus. The gospels are often said to have been written by eyewitnesses, but this falls apart—not only for Mark but for the others, too.