Introduction Sources of Our Knowledge The evangelists, I have argued, did not write for specific churches they knew or knew about, not even for a very large number of such churches. Rather drawing on their experience and knowledge of several or many specific churches, they wrote for any and every church to which their Gospels might circulate. No more than almost any other author, at their time or at most other periods, could they know which specific readers and hearers their work would reach. Thus,