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gospels and John is the latest, and there are considerable differences be-
tween them. If the accounts in Mark and John are to be regarded as his-
torical records, these differences can be easily explained by saying that
they are two separate depictions of the same event written by two differ-
ent people. One of these was written 40-45 years later, and the other up to
60-65 years later.
Faced with such differences, some Christians say things like despite

the minor differences, at the end of the day they all describe the same event. Yet
these differences actually matter, because they reveal that the New
Testament authors wrote their texts by normal, human means. They
heard various oral accounts regarding Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and then
penned the Gospels under the influence of their own cultures, beliefs,
knowledge, or preconceptions. For that reason, these texts are human, not

As well as the Qur'an, the New Testament describes many of Prophet Jesus'
(pbuh) miracles. One of these is his healing the blind. Nicolas Poussin,
(1594-1665), Louvre Museum, Paris.