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Authors of the Gospels in the New Testament

For paintings of this subject, see The Four Evangelists (painting).

In Christian tradition, the Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four canonical Gospel accounts.

In the New Testament, they bear the following titles: the Gospel of Matthew; the Gospel of Mark; the Gospel of Luke; and the Gospel of John. ^[1]

Gospels

The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are known as the Synoptic Gospels, because they include many of the same stories, often in the same sequence or even verbatim.

While the periods to which the gospels are usually dated suggest otherwise,^[2][3] convention traditionally holds that the authors were two of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, John and Matthew, as well as two "apostolic men",^[4] Mark and Luke, whom Orthodox Tradition records as members of the 70 Apostles (Luke 10):

• Matthew – a form