@NashBob2@KafkaesqueKlamm@charlesmurray Exactly right. He wasn't an eyewitness, but he talked to them. I think that happened whie Paul was in prison in Caesarea annd Luke had time to travel through Judea.
@KafkaesqueKlamm@charlesmurray We can't be sure, but it's likely that one of those earlier accounts was Mark. Maybe Matthew as well. If so, those gospels were written at the latest in the 50s AD--well within the lifetimes of eyewitnesses.