New Testament that Luke the Evangelist, an associate of St. Paul who was probably not an eyewitness to Jesus' ministry, wrote the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles. Scholars are also divided on the traditional claim that Mark the Evangelist, an associate of St. Peter who may have been an eyewitness to Jesus' ministry, wrote the Gospel of Mark. Scholars are more divided over the traditional claim that Matthew the Apostle wrote the Gospel of Matthew and that John the Apostle wrote the Gospel of John. Opinion, however, is widely divided on this issue and there is no widespread consensus.
John Lightfoot of Claudius)" was published later that year. In 1647 came "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament", followed in 1655 by "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament", inscribed to Cromwell. He helped Brian Walton with the "Polyglot Bible" (1657). His own best-known work was the "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae", in which the volume relating to the Gospel of Matthew appeared in 1658, that relating to the Gospel of Mark in 1663, and those relating to 1 Corinthians, John and Luke, in 1664, 1671 and 1674 respectively. The "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae impensae in Acta Apostolorum