¥Of
our canonical gospels, no more than two had
been written when Luke wrote (Matthew and Mark),
possibly only Matthew.
¥So
there were apparently a number of other attempts
in existence when Luke wrote.
¥He
does not suggest these present a different Jesus, but rather that they, too, depend on the testimony of the eyewitnesses.
¥There
is no evidence that any of these attempts
survived to be the gospels mentioned in
later centuries. They were probably displaced very early on by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.