How about you,
@BilliardsBall ?
You brought up Lystra in your list, but you never answered my questions.
You brought up the existence of the city, Lystra, and they spoke a different language or dialect. But you didn’t bring up why Acts 14:8-18 narrated the event - Paul’s healing of man who was crippled since birth, couldn’t walk.
Supposedly there hundreds of witnesses, including the alleged crippled man. Where are the hundreds of different written accounts to this episode in Lystra?
Surely you understand of historical verification, haven’t you?
Unless there are written accounts in Lystra, that can verify Acts 14:8-18, then all we have is a single source, not multiple independent sources.
To me, the story of Paul healing a man in Lystra, is based on unsubstantiated hearsay, or purely the author’s invention.
There are even no verification from Paul himself in his epistles where he healed a man in Lystra. In one letter (Timothy), he does mention Lystra, but not him healing any crippled man.
You have no independent accounts (literary evidences) that Lystra episode is true, other than the sole Acts 14:8-18.
Likewise, if there were hundred eyewitnesses to Jesus’ crucifixion, then why is that there are no contemporary accounts by these eyewitnesses until almost 40 (Mark’s) to 60 years later (Matthew’s, Luke’s & John’s), that recorded this event?
And why are there some contradictions to what happen after Jesus' burial? The most common denominator is that Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus, but there are little agreement in who accompany her or she was there alone.
In Matthew's, she had another Mary with her, but we don't know which one (28:1).
In Mark's, we have her with Mary mother of James and Salome (16:1), but in a different passage (16:9-11), she was alone. So in Mark, we have 2 different versions.
In Luke's, we don't know who Mary's companions were until 24:9: Joanna and Mary mother of James.
And in John 20:1, she was alone at the tomb.
And that's not the only contradictions between these gospels in those chapters. In Matthew and Luke, the women spoke to all 11 disciples. But in John, they only spoke to Peter and another disciple (the one whom Jesus loved the most); and Peter would later inform the rest of his fellow disciples, though Thomas was absent at that time.
But in again, in the gospel of Mark, we have two versions. In 16:10-11, she alone spoke to all surviving (11) disciples. But in 16:8, they spoke to no one out of fear:
Mark 16:8 said:
So they out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
They cannot agree with each other. And we have no other contemporary sources, independent of these gospels.