What Are The Four Gospels Of John

The Gospels also known as the ‘Good News’ is a collection of stories known as parables grouped together in four different perspectives titled Matthew, Mark, Luke & John. These Gospels were written after a period of reflection on the life of Jesus Christ and each provide a different and unique insight of his teachings, morals and lessons. As demonstrated in the source quote, each writer of the Gospels was intend to “present what Jesus meant to them”. Three of these gospels are very similar (Matthew, Mark & Luke) and therefore know as Synoptic while John portrays a completely different perspective on Jesus’s life. Therefore, this report will focus just on Two Gospels and as such on what Jesus meant to the writers of The Gospel of Mark and also the Gospel of Luke.

The gospel of Luke and John are gospels about Jesus and John the Baptist. They have several differences and similarities. The Gospel of Luke describes the conception and birth of John the Baptist and Jesus while the gospel of Luke describes their life after birth. Summaries, variances, and connections of these two gospels are discussed below.

John as we know today was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. He was also the brother of James, who was also an apostle. John was the son of Zeebee and of Salome. His father was a fisherman while living in Bethsaida in Galilee on the border of the lake Gennesareth. John's mother was one of many women who gave to the maintenance of Jesus Christ. John's parents were very good people, they loved God and his son. It is said that john and his brother James were fishing when Jesus came and chose them. They were soon known as the fishers of men. The John of whom I am talking about is John the Evangelist.

In many ways, the ministry of Jesus Christ can be understood through his interactions with other people. In particular, Jesus’ interactions with others while sharing a meal often reveal the heart of his ministry. The simple act of eating with another is mentioned in all four of the Gospels, especially in the gospels of Luke and John. Luke and John’s Gospels use stories of Jesus eating with others to highlight the most important aspect of his ministry, sacrificial and radical love for the other.

All of the Gospels describe the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, but each author illustrates the stories differently. Scholars believe Mark is the first Gospel written and is symbolized by a lion to denote Christ as powerful and fast-paced. The Book of John, understood to be the last gospel composed, is perceived as an eagle because the story differs greatly and is often more developed than the other Gospels. Comparing John 2 to the Gospel of Mark will depict unique themes and characteristics of Jesus.

Gospel is an old English word meaning “good news.” When comparing the four gospels they are all unified, but each gospel can have slight differences to them. Whether is literary structure, length, how many teachings, important events, different significance, geography or chronology; they all are correlated to tell us Jesus’ story, in their own way. In like manner, God didn’t give us one explanation from an confined individual. Rather, God educates us about the broad richness of Jesus’ life through a numerous prophet-witnesses. Moreover, God works through well-documented and a valid history, not through confidential revelations to a single person. The prophetic witnesses of the Gospels endorse the truth that God himself is speaking. Each Gospel

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

The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic gospels. Together with St. John's gospel, the four gospels are sometimes referred to as the four-fold gospels. The term synoptic means to ‘see together. These first three gospels focus on the performances and the teachings of Jesus in a pretty similar format. However, St, John's gospel which is the fourth part of the four-fold gospel with four voices that present different perspectives on the life of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Nothing is so foundational as the reality of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. Questions have been raised about the historical characters of biblical narratives. Historicity is the condition of having occurred in history; authenticity. The authors were holy men of God who wrote the gospels inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. They did not write according to the method and expectations of man’s modern history writing, but wrote according to revelation of the Holy Spirit.

The entire Bible is centered around the coming of one man. And that man is Jesus Christ. Four different men recorded the story of his ministry on the earth. These stories were recorded and placed in the Bible at the beginning of the New Testament. These books are now known to us as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And even though they are technically four different books, they all tell the same story in the hopes of getting the same message across.

The first three Gospels were Matthew, Mark, and Luke and considering they were so similar the scholars called them Synoptic Gospels. They were the same stories and often similar sequence and in similar wording. The Synoptic Gospel is in contrast to John and can present the Jesus story from the same point of view. Or as they stated it can be read together, “with one eye.”

The book of John is the 4th of the gospels. It follows the first three pretty well but also differs from them in many ways. It was said to be written by John but they also say that John was never truly mentioned as the author and that he constantly refers to himself as the “disciple whom Jesus loved”. A lot of scholars say that there were multiple authors to this book and there are even scholars who think that because he never refers to himself as John, that it was never written by him at all. This book was written around AD 90-710. The biggest debate over the authorship of this book is due to the fact that the book of John is very slandering towards the Jewish community. It focuses a lot on how much the God disliked the Jews and how they were constant opponents to Jesus. Scholars have even gone as far to say that John was anti-Semitic and have tried to have the book removed because of its hateful tone. For example, in chapter 8 it states the Jews father is Satan. However, a lot of people will go on to say that this is just a literary example of the constant conflict the Christian church had with the Jewish community. With all that being said there are plenty of people that think this gospel is the best because John spent the most time with Christ and went on to write other books such as Revelation.

The four gospels in the Bible are the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The book that I have chosen to focus on is the book of Luke. Referencing my reading review from earlier in this week, my favorite Biblical story is, of course, the Christmas story. In my opinion, the book of Luke tells this story in the most beautiful way, and has therefore long been my favorite of the four gospels. In order, Luke is the third book, but the second longest of the four canonical gospels (Wikipedia.org).

This essay will show contrasts in views on the Gospel of John regarding authorship,dates, and the relationship between John's Gospel and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Some comparison of thought, concerning composition and life setting, will also be presented.

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)