The Four Gospels, Mark, Luke, And John

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.

The Gospels are a collection of books in the Bible that serve the purpose of sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ, give reason after reason to choose to believe, and stir the faith of believers. The Gospels are comprised of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These books were written in the time period of 70-90 AD. These writings were highlighted by key events, including the birth, baptism, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The Gospels are firsthand experiences written down for encouragement and building up of faith of believers, but also to evangelize and share the Gospel with nonbelievers.

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

The fourth Gospel, book of John, has been attributed to the apostle John (Harris, 2011, pg. 232). The apostle John was the son of Zebedee, and brother of James which are fishermen. They created a circle, including Paul and followed Jesus closely throughout all his transgressions. It was not until years later, leading churchmen accepted as John’s composition (Harris, 2011, pg. 233).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Mark is said to be the oldest written gospel but the literature never mentioned the author’s name. Mark was a rather powerful story of Jesus, which includes Jesus’ development through his path of becoming the anointed one (Millar, 2010, p. 19). However Matthew is very similar yet contrasting to marks gospel; the gospel was a very influential gospel until the modern times. The Gospel became powerful because Matthew claimed to be the first follower of Jesus and the gospel was part of the New Testament (Millar, 2010, p. 61). In addition it covered almost mark’s entire gospel making mark’s Gospel unnecessary. This paper will aim to comparing and contrast Gospel of Mark and Gospel of Matthew; although both the Gospels are very similar they portray

Throughout the centuries many people, Christians included, assumed that the Gospels were four different biographies of Jesus Christ, and that the only aim of the Gospels were to give us a detailed account of the events in the life of Jesus. This is a misunderstanding, because the Gospels are not mere biographies, they are a very unique literary genre that contain both, historical accounts (factual events) and a theological interpretations, as St. John Paul II stated, they are a “Vision of Faith based on precise historical testimony” (Novo Millennio Ineunte 17).

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.

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.

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.