Scholars who admit the tradition of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John authorship exists, but they themselves do not believe it. Polycarp knew John and Irenaeus was a disciple Polycarp. That’s how we know. *Matthew*. 1. *Bart Ehrman*: "The tradition that the Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew, one of Jesus' twelve apostles, is an old one... But most scholars today do not think that Matthew the apostle wrote the Gospel of Matthew." (Ehrman, 2004, p. 43) 2. *Raymond Brown*: "The attribution of th