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Article: How the 4 Gospels came to be chosen for the New Testament.(Main News)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- April 15, 2006
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Byline: LIWANAG SANTIAGO
Astronomical evidence strongly suggests that Christ was crucified on a Friday, a full moon, April 03 A.D. 33 or in the year 786 A.U.C. (from the founding of Rome.) Israel was then a province of Rome under the reign of Tiberius Claudius Nero, Caesar.
The story of the life, teachings, miracles and death of Christ was written in stages by eyewitnesses; the apostles Matthew, John, Peter, through his protA[c]gA[c] Mark and Paul, through the physician, Luke. Matthew started writing his version only some 20 years after the death of Christ. John finished his version in his old age, some 70 years later.
Through a few years after ...