According to their own testimony, the Gospel writers were not telling tales, but were reporting their personal encounters8 with Jesus: “What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands concerning the Word of Life [Jesus] . . . what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also . . . .” The writers were not testifying to myths, but to “sober truth” about events that had “not been done in a corner.”9
