How can Scripture record events and quote Christ word for word as if by eyewitnesses when it was written years after the events?
A viewer asks: how is it that Scripture is written with such detail, including quoting word for word what Christ said, as if the authors were direct witnesses, if it was written years after the events?
Answer
Here is how inspiration works. Take Luke, the only gospel writer who gives us the annunciation, Zachariah, and John the Baptist moving in the womb. How did Luke know all that? He knew Mary, Zachariah, and Elizabeth after Jesus died; he went and talked to them and got a word for word description. Then, when he sat down to write, the Holy Spirit came upon him so that no mistake was made. Luke says John moved in his mother's womb at six months. How would he know six and not five or seven? He got it from Elizabeth, who was counting the days, and the Holy Spirit made sure it went down as six. Same with the book of Acts. Notice Luke sometimes says, we went to Corinth, we went to Galatia. Who is the we? It is Luke; he traveled with Paul from city to city, because Theophilus commissioned him, according to Luke 1:1 to 4, to give an accurate account, and Luke even uses the word guarantee. In Acts 27 he says there were 276 men on the boat. Where did he get that number? He counted them; he was on the boat when it sailed and when it crashed. He was taking notes right on the scene, and it was not written many years after. The person gets the information, and when it is put in writing the Holy Spirit makes sure no error appears, so it becomes the words of God.