What's an unintended eyewitness support statement? If I can borrow your Bible? Let me go...

Tom Endler: What's an unintended eyewitness support statement? Jim Warner Wallace: [to the judge] If I can borrow your Bible? [taking and opening it] Jim Warner Wallace: Let me go to the Gospel of, uh, Matthew for an example of this. I'll start with a passage in which Jesus is in front of Caiaphas at a hearing. It says here, "Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, 'Prophesy to us, Christ. Who hit you?'." Now, that seems like a very simple request, given that the people who hit him are standing right in front of him. What... this makes no sense. What... why would it be prophecy to be able to tell you who hit you? But it's not until you read Luke that you get an answer to this. He says, "The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him. They blindfolded him and demanded, 'Prophesy, who hit you?'." So, now we know why this was a challenge, 'cause Luke tells us the thing that Matthew left out, that he was actually blindfolded at the time this took place. This is very common, this kind of unintentional eyewitness support that fills in a detail that the first witness left out. After years of scrutinizing these gospels using the template that I use to determine if an eyewitness is reliable, I concluded that the four gospels in this book contained the reliable accounts of the actual words of Jesus. Tom Endler: And that's to include the statements quoted by Ms. Wesley in her class? Jim Warner Wallace: Absolutely.