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The wonder and awe of "all things".
Yes, that's right: memories change, for most people (not everyone is the same though, it turns out). One of the only ways to know what happened from a large groups of witnesses giving varying stories, with often disagreeing details is to notice which details the large majority agrees on. This is why multiple witnesses are much more reliable than just a lone witness: one can compare and see what they all agree on.There is a problem with eyewitnesses, especially over such long periods of time. People very often see what they want to see. As a result eyewitnesses are not all that reliable. Even worse those that are most passionate often are the most likely to misinterpret the events. Look at all of the "witnesses" in our recent election. When tested the eyewitnesses very often badly misinterpreted what they saw. Most of the corrections of what they misinterpreted seemed to come from other Republicans. And when there claims were tested they always failed, take Georgia with its multiple recounts, one of them a hand recount of all paper ballots plus an audit of signatures of mail in ballots. No cheating found. And massive cheating would have shown up. Add on to the fact that when people remember things in the past they tend to change the memories a bit and the stories do not appear to be reliable at all.
That brings to mind a different thing. I think you would find this interesting, like me. It was really surprising.
While this isn't required for Mark to be accurate -- it isn't required to have one of these people necessarily -- it is still a fascinating possibility one cannot rule out.
Such a person...might be drawn to go listen to this famous preacher, this person Jesus, and hear for themselves what all of the interest is about.