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Originally Posted by Anthesian
It is because of the timeline of the appearances of the 4 Gospels.
Christ dies in 30 C.E.
Paul starts in 48 C.E.
Mark 65 C.E.
Temple destroyed
Matthew/Luke 85 C.E.--Luke could have been 135 C.E.
John 95 C.E.
These are the times that the gospels were written. However, the deaths of some apostles and disciples date some time before their gospels, epistles, etc.
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The problem is that although a lazy consensus exists for the supposedly appearance based upon comments of supposed contemporary events leads scholars to conclude different timelines for the gospels, I've seen very wide guesses on John from the fifties to the traditional nineties, and Mark is sometimes traced back to the fifties, with Luke and Matthew being in between.
And then we have the Pauline epistle problem. So it's really fancy guesswork.