How the Gospels Came to Be
Folks today tend to think the Bible dropped out of the sky already bound in leather with gold edges. But if you back up a couple thousand years and look at things the way ordinary people lived them, the picture gets a whole lot more human. When Jesus was baptized, John the Baptist recognized him as the Messiah. Later on, sitting in a prison cell, that same John sent word asking if Jesus really was the one. Now, that’s not a small detail. That’s a flat‑out contradiction. And it isn’t the only one. The gospel stories don’t always line up neat and tidy, and sometimes they tell things nobody could have witnessed at all.