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very substantial differences of opinion.
We know who won: those Christians
who thought that four gospels, no
more and no fewer, were the author-
itative record of Jesus. 23
In another article, he describes
the process of the naming of the
anonymously penned Gospels:

In the first half of the second century
there were a lot of gospels, and the
Christians had to decide which ones
were authoritative. So they named
them, and thus the four gospels con-
sidered today by the Church as au-
Luke was one of Paul's students. thoritative were named Mark,
However, we do not know if Luke's Gospel
was actually written by him. Matthew, Luke, and John. 24
Paula Fredriksen, author of
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament, Images of Jesus, sum-
marizes the position thus:

Eventually, some of Jesus' sayings, now in Greek, were collected
and written down in a document, now lost, which scholars desig-
nate Q (from the German Quelle, "source"). Meanwhile, other oral
traditions – miracle stories, parables, legends, and so on – grew, cir-
culated, and were collected in different forms by various Christian
communities. In the period around… 70 C.E., an anonymous
Gentile Christian wrote some of these down. This person was not an
author – he did not compose de novo… He organized these stories
into a sequence and shaped his inherited material into something
resembling a historical narrative. The result was the Gospel of
Mark. 25
She also notes the language used in the Gospels: