In this article, under the premise that Luke's Gospel was published in the early AD 50s, it is proposed that Luke rearranged the three temptations, placing the temple pinnacle temptation last, in order to connect with the believers alongside the Aegean Sea, visited during Paul's second missionary journey.
In "A Trustworthy Gospel," I confront Gospel integrity challenges that arise when it is accepted that the earliest Gospels were not published until several decades after the resurrection. In "A Gospel for Cornelius," I counter Gospel integrity challenges that arise due to content and sequential discrepancies between the Gospels of…
A Gospel for Cornelius: Discovering Mark's Affinity with Matthew now available.
Daniel Iglesias Grèzes has published an assessment of the Synoptic problem which affirms Matthean priority and aligns with the Augustinian hypothesis.
A favorable Amazon review of A Trustworthy Gospel by Cory Marsh: "This book doesn’t merely argue for Matthean priority, but for a very early publication of Matthew—preceding all of Paul’s letters (several years [not decades] after Jesus’s ascension). The argument is especially reasonable when one considers that all of Paul’s…
A new book, A Gospel for Cornelius: Discovering Mark's Affinity with Matthew to be published in September.
Here is the abstract for the paper that I’ll be presenting at the Annual ISCA Conference in Wichita on 11–12 September 2026 (https://isca-apologetics.org/): Inerrancy, Patterns of Behavior, and the Implications on Early Gospel Publication The New Testament portrays the earliest Christians as being reliant on Scripture—as recognizing that God spoke…
This article articulates a four-step framework for the progressive proclamation and publication of the Synoptic Gospels and Acts (assuming a Matthew, Mark, Luke sequence), contrasted with Black's four phase Gospel development model (which assumes a Matthew, Luke, Mark sequence).
My upcoming book on Mark’s Gospel explores exegetical insights and harmonization benefits that are available if one accepts the premise that Mark was published for the benefit of Cornelius and friends in Caesarea Maritima shortly after their conversion per Acts 10, and shortly after the publication of Matthew’s Gospel. This…
If the arguments for the early publication of Matthew in A Trustworthy Gospel are accepted, then what are the implications for the next Gospel to be published?