The Four Gospels, Mark, Luke, And John

“Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law…”, the compelling adventure novel, The Call of the Wild, written by Jack London truly does follow that rule. A beautifully built St. Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix named Buck is stolen and transported to the primitive Northland environment. There he becomes a sled dog, frequently switched between owners and grouped with other canines. Throughout the story Buck finds himself constantly competing to be the alpha, and struggling for mastery.

The gospels provides us with four different, yet not conflicting, stories of the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John gives these accounts and are called the synoptic gospels. Each one of these gospels have a key verse, main people they are ministering to, or how they look at Christ. The Gospels displayed that Jesus was the promised Messiah of the Old Testament and that laid the foundation for the teaching of the rest of the New Testament. A complete understanding of the life of Jesus Christ is gained as all four accounts agree with each other much like taking testimony from four different eye witnesses standing on four corners of an intersection where an accident has happened.

Jesus’ longest prophecy about the time of the end is found in the synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, with each giving their own accounts of the day that they were with Him on the Mount of Olives. It is commonly referred to as The Olivet Prophecy, and it is an overview of the circumstantial events that will lead to Jesus’ return. This prophecy was given during the week before His crucifixion, and it is pivotal to understanding the future events that will affect the entire world. The prophecy begins when Jesus and His disciples, having left the Temple, were sitting on the Mount of Olives. They were enjoying a spectacular view and unexpectedly, Jesus threw the disciples a curve when He announced that the beautiful Temple they were admiring was going to be destroyed. Being curious and very concerned, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him to tell them when this prophecy of such end time doom was going to take place. Jesus is so smart; He knew that they would want to know more. The apostle Mark’s account of the Olivet Prophecy which is found in Mark 13 says that Jesus revealed to them the conditions that would be present on the Earth that would lead up to His return. He said it would be a time of increasing trouble and turmoil. He warned them that at a future time on Earth; man would have the capability to destroy all of human life. Matthew, however, gives a more descriptive account of what Jesus said that day, "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not

When we open the New Testament, we find four books called "gospels" - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. All four present compelling accounts of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the long-awaited Jewish Messiah (the Christ) and Son of God.

One of the most important terms, in establishing a state, is legitimacy - the recognition of the state by the international community. This fact may be the main reason why countries around the world found it necessary to justify their independence in their declaration of independence. This justification can be manifested in different forms; the first form could be found in the U.S declaration, of independence from the U.K by justifying its independence based on the natural rights given by God to all men, and on the violations made toward the colonies by the British King and his authorities. The second form as it appears in the South Carolina declaration, which also uses the violations explanation, is based on legal precedents from the U.S declaration.

Mark is the second book of the Gospels from the New Testament. The author of this book is John Mark a spiritual son of the Apostle Peter. The book of Mark was written to the Roman which are the Gentile believers. In this book Mark focus more on the servanthood of Jesus rather than his kingship, because the Romans were not interested in the linage nor pedigree of Jesus. Mark gives a detailed account of Jesus ministry from his baptism to his ascension. The book of Mark gives no account of the virigin birth of Jesus, his temple experiences as a boy, nor the Sermon on the Mount. In this gospel Mark focus more on the healing and miracles of Jesus. Mark portrays Jesus as the perfect servant of Jehovah.The book of Mark tells of Jesus feeding the

The synoptic gospels have a major similarity in their writing and the content written. Dr. Luke’s writing was different from the rest of the gospels because he tried to give a humanly explanation. He portrays Jesus in his perfect human nature basing on the ministry that he came to save all human beings. Mark has portrayed Jesus as a divine servant of God. He gives no explanations of what he was doing. Mark 14:3-9 explains about a woman who went to see Jesus in the house of Simon the leper. The woman anointed Jesus’ head but those present thought it was a waste. Jesus then replied telling them, “She has done what she should have for she has anointed my body for burial (mark 14:9). Luke 7:36-50 on the other hand talks of a woman

All the Gospels tell the same story but just to different people. Of the four Gospels John presents Jesus as God the most. These were written after the life of Jesus, Johns main focus was not just on who Jesus was but more of what Jesus did. So John was giving the Jews truth why they don't have to live under the law and why Jesus did what he did. For me personally, I would struggle with sharing the good news and the love of God and not seeing any instant fruit. But I have come to the conclusion that God doesn't answer on our timing but on his. Also that I might not see instant fruit from inviting someone to church or praying for someone, but I know the least I have done is plant a seed in their heart. It is not my job to make someone accept

In the Gospel, it tells the story of Jesus’s ministry, death, and resurrection (Harris, 2014). It tells a story about Jesus’s actions and teachings to others. The Gospels do not represent a complete life of Jesus, how did he become the type of man he was. There are four Gospels that are included: Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark.

Some scholarly methods that were used to study the Gospels have been developed through a variety of biblical criticisms such as, historical, redaction, narrative, and form. (Harris, 2014). “Historical criticism is the analyst of documents that recorded historical events, that investigates the historical setting in which the texts originated” (Harris, 2014). Form criticism identifies the “setting in life” that each of these types of literature would have served, with the assumption that different genres are intended to serve distinct purposes” (Powell, 2017). Literary criticism, is when literary critics study the finished product of the complete written texts of five Gospels, including Thomas. “This is done to gain information and to detect

Christianism is shown these days to be a religion along with other sub-religions. There is wide array of different beliefs and views about the same divinities, such as God and Jesus. There are many religions like Protestantism, Catholicism, Evangelism, Jehovah’s Witness and many more with different perspectives about Jesus in the New Testament. Many questions come into our mind when it comes to Jesus, such as: who is he? Is he really human or divine? Which Gospel is actually telling us the truth? In fact, even the gospels in the New Testament have many different perspectives about Jesus Christ. To be precise, the first four gospels from the New Testament, which are the three Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John have many differences among each other with their portrayal of Jesus. In the following paragraphs, I will be exploring in depth these differences by describing how these texts describes Jesus’ deeds, message and his title of who he is.

A Gospel in general, is a textual document written in narrative form of the good news and teachings proclaimed by Jesus to announce the power of God. Mark’s Gospel is one of four others (Matthew, Luke and John), where each Gospel has its differences in structure, language and theological slants. Mark’s Gospel is divided into three main sections: The Ministry of Jesus, Jesus’ prologue of foretelling his Passion, and his Passion and Death. Mark set out

The word 'gospel' means good news. There are four gospel accounts in the New Testament:

In the Bible, the four Gospels push different ideologies, views, lessons and different stories that center around the central figure of Jesus. The Gospel of Luke main themes center on Universalism, social justice, compassion for outcasts, the role of woman and the Holy Spirit.(Hauer and Young) These parables are able to connect to the context of when Luke was able bring these stories together in 85 CE. The Gospel was most likely written in Greek speaking area located in the Roman empire.(Coogan et al.) This time of stability allowed for the proliferation of Christianity and Gospels such as Luke. The passages that will be discussed will mainly focus on compassion for outcast seen in Luke 16:19–31 and warning against greed in Luke 12:13-34. Luke 13:6-9 focuses on a fig tree talks of the opportunities people and if they use them properly. Finally, the last parable is 7:11-17, which focuses on holy spirit and the possibilities for miracles and the importance of life. These parables in Luke are able to give a social justice commentary that can make a person feel compassionate for the poor and the reckoning they would receive in the afterlife if they didn’t follow Jesus’s teachings. As, well the story is able to push across a message that will everlasting importance to people. This has led to the Gospels of Luke becoming one of the main 4 Gospels and one of the most highly regarded of the Gospels. (Hauer and Young)

One book in The Old Testament will be discussed along with four of the first chapters in The New Testament. These books offered more messages than biblical history. The four gospels in The New Testament were written in a time where Jesus was born. He was born to offer hope and salvation to people in the nation of Israel. Most importantly, humans are able to have a complete relationship with God through his son, Jesus. God has still continued to work in mysterious ways and bless those who devote their life to him. Jesus lived to give good tithings to people and offer salvation to the Jews. He was the one to show people God. Jesus had continued to work with and through people to reveal God’s almighty power.