#12629 Were the Gospels Written Earlier? Eucharist and the Bible - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
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Were the Gospels Written Earlier?
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Questions Covered:
- 01:27 – Were the Gospels Written Earlier then We Were Taught?
- 14:44 – Why are pregnant women allowed to receive the Eucharist?
- 22:18 – When did the terms low, high and solemn high Mass develop for the Latin Mass?
- 28:45 – At what point should we take the bible stories more literally?
- 41:00 – Did Jesus descend into the Hell of the just? Is this different from Hell and why did Jesus need to do this?
- 45:36 – Why isn’t the book of Enoch in the Bible?
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| 0:52.4 | we're going to do and ask me anything. It can be about Catholicism, but also, if you have a weird question, I mean, this is the time to ask. So here we are, Jimmy. Good to see you. How are you? I'm doing very well. Glad to be here. Well, glad to have you on. It's always a, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. So let's go ahead and just jump right into a question that I have for you. You know, there's always speculation about the Gospels and they were written. My question to you is, were the Gospels written earlier than we were taught? Well, what do you mean we and what were you taught? Well, I mean, because different people have different teachers and different teachers have different |
| 1:29.4 | opinions. So what do you got in mind? |
| 1:32.0 | Well, I mean, the, uh, the current, I guess, I can't say current consensus. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, the current consensus of when it's believed to that the gospels were written, which |
| 1:42.1 | is. |
| 1:42.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.3 | Yeah. So, so this is, uh, this is a written, which is, yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:44.2 | So this is, this is a question, the opinion in this area, and there's never been a firm |
| 1:50.6 | consensus, but the, the opinion in this area has developed over time, and the current |
| 1:57.5 | majority opinion is that the Gospels were written between around 80-70 into the 80-90s. |
| 2:06.2 | The earliest gospel is believed to be Mark. |
| 2:09.0 | It's commonly estimated to have been written between AD 68 and AD 73. |
| 2:16.1 | Matthew and Luke were written sometime in the 80s, possibly up to the early 90s, |
| 2:22.7 | and then John was written in the 90s, possibly up to the year 100. So that's kind of the current |
| 2:29.7 | majority opinion, and I would say, if that's what you were taught, then I would say my opinion is, |
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