text: The Bible is not history. It is more a book of faith, beliefs, myths, metaphors, and rules. The Gospels were written 30-70 years after Jesus died. Each author presented their story from their point of view. 
  Since Mark's was the first, it is probably the most accurate. No accounts of Jesus' birth or resurrection were included. It ends with the discovery of an empty tomb and the witnesses running off telling no one. Did the other authors add the missing parts or create them? Some Bibles have additional verses added to end of Mark to conform with Mathew and Luke's resurrection story. 
  I prefer to look at the Bible at the thematic, symbolic, and metaphoric levels, than at the literal level.