The book of Mark is agreed by biblical scholars, (and we are talking, say, Oxford here, among others) to be Peter's eyewitness account as written down by Mark. Luke was a contemporary of Peter and Paul, as well as the other apostles, and is the author of Luke, as well as the Acts of the Apostles. Mark and Luke were scribes, a common occupation in those days, and were men who often accompanied remarkable teachers and wrote down their teachings and the accounts of their lives. Paul himself was a learned learned Torah scholar who came to see that Jesus was the fulfilment of the Torah prophecies. The account of "walking on water", turning water into wine, performing miracles, etc. served a deeper purpose in teaching that was known to students of the OT.
Josephus, Hillel, Hebrew scribes and a few other Gentile historians do make references to Jesus, proving that He did walk the earth, at that time.
> The book of Mark is agreed by biblical scholars, (and we are talking, say, Oxford here, among others) to be Peter's eyewitness account as written down by Mark. Luke was a contemporary of Peter and Paul, as well as the other apostles, and is the author of Luke, as well as the Acts of the Apostles. Mark and Luke were scribes, a common occupation in those days, and were men who often accompanied remarkable teachers and wrote down their teachings and the accounts of their lives.
http://pages.ca.inter.net/~oblio/CTVExcerptsOne.htm#One
> Josephus, Hillel, Hebrew scribes and a few other Gentile historians do make references to Jesus, proving that He did walk the earth, at that time.
Incorrect. These scribes wrote well *after* the time of Christ. They no more prove that Christ was real that someone writing today about seeing Elvis walking around makes it so.