“...all Four Gospels were completed well within the lifetime of msny people who knew Jesus...”
Yes indeed Mrs. Don-o. Even if we cede the latest possible date for John usually put forth as 125 AD then that would still put it within the life of many whose parents were alive when Christ taught. But if we look to the earlier date for Mark it chould have been 55 AD meaning that 25 year old followers of the Lord on Earth would have been only 50 at the time Mark was writing.
Wow! VERY interesting! Do you have a source for that 55 AD date for the writing of Mark’s Gospel? Did they find something eye-popping in the Qumran fragments?