This surely is because none of them were writing after the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem in 70 A.D. In his Gospel, Matthew takes particular pains to point out occasion after occasion where prophecy is fulfilled. His mysterious silence in the case of the destruction of the Temple is best explained by assuming that, when Matthew composed his Gospel, the prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem hadn’t yet been fulfilled. This idea gains greater force when readers note that other documents
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