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The Augustinian hypothesis is rejected today by scholars, including [[conservative]]s, because the textual evidence is overwhelming that the [[Gospel of Mark]] was written first and that the [[Gospel of Matthew]] copied much of it, with a few noteworthy variations due to Matthew's different point-of-view and omissions of what he could not personally verify.  [[Liberal denial]] has erred in denying that [[Mark]] was a young, non-[[Apostle]] eyewitness of [[Jesus]].  Flaws in the Augustinian hypothesis also include its baseless speculation that the Gospel of Matthew was originally written in [[Aramaic]] or even [[Hebrew]], when all the evidence indicates that it was originally written in [[Greek]].

The Augustinian hypothesis is rejected today by scholars, including [[conservative]]s, because the textual evidence is overwhelming that the [[Gospel of Mark]] was written first and that the [[Gospel of Matthew]] copied much of it, with a few noteworthy variations due to Matthew's different point-of-view and omissions of what he could not personally verify.  [[Liberal denial]] has erred in denying that [[Mark]] was a young, non-[[Apostle]] eyewitness of [[Jesus]].  Flaws in the Augustinian hypothesis also include its baseless speculation that the Gospel of Matthew was originally written in [[Aramaic]] or even [[Hebrew]], when all the evidence indicates that it was originally written in [[Greek]].

St. Augustine relied entirely on historical rather than textual evidence, but the historical evidence is far more vulnerable to [[liberal bias]] than the textual evidence is.

St. Augustine relied entirely on historical rather than textual evidence, but the historical evidence is far more vulnerable to [[liberal bias]] than the textual evidence is. On this issue of [[ordering the Gospels]], [[liberal denial]] that [[Mark]] was an eyewitness distorted the historical opinions.

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