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Its proponents believe that the [[Gospel of Matthew]], was written first. The [[Gospel of Mark]] was written second, based on material found in the Gospel of Matthew, and amplifying some of it with more detail. The [[Gospel of Luke]] was written third using information found in the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew. Advocates of the hypothesis accept that the Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew, the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke, and that the Gospel of Mark was written by Mark.

Its proponents believe that the [[Gospel of Matthew]], was written first. The [[Gospel of Mark]] was written second, based on material found in the Gospel of Matthew, and amplifying some of it with more detail. The [[Gospel of Luke]] was written third using information found in the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew. Advocates of the hypothesis accept that the Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew, the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke, and that the Gospel of Mark was written by Mark.

The Augustinian hypothesis is rejected today by many scholars, including some [[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 many scholars, including some [[conservative]]s, because it is argue that the textual evidence indicates 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. On this issue of [[ordering the Gospels]], [[liberal denial]] that [[Mark]] was an eyewitness distorted the historical opinions.

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.