"The eight Pauline letters I have accepted as genuine [Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, Philemon, and Colossians] are so completely silent concerning the events that were later recorded in the gospels as to suggest that these events were not known to Paul, who, however, could not have been ignorant of them if they had really occurred." G.A. Wells, The Historical Evidence for Jesus (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1986), p. 22.