Gospel of Luke

Synoptic Gospels are the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke. For this paper I will be focusing on Matt 28:1-8; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12. I first want to point out that there is a literary problem with the Synoptic Gospels called the Synoptic Problem. The Synoptic Problem has two parts, who wrote first?, and, who copied from who? To solve this problem I have used the two document hypothesis, which is Matthew and Luke copied from Q (the source) and Mark. I used a synopsis of the three Gospels mentioned

between the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke is the length. The Gospel of Luke goes more in-depth of the life of Jesus; in the Gospel of Luke, there is a section about Jesus as a child, Lk 2:41-52. Jesus’ birth and childhood is omitted from the Gospel of Mark, Marks’ Gospel starts with Jesus as an adult. The Gospel of Mark is a more condensed version of the accounts of Jesus’s life. There are also differences between the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke. The Gospel of Luke begins with

Attridge, H. W. (1998, April). The Gospel of Luke. Retrieved from Pbs.org: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/luke.html In this article Harold Attridge examines Luke’s background, the scriptures Luke wrote, Jesus’s values, the context and purpose of Luke’s gospel and the treatment of Christians at the time of Luke’s writings. The article expresses that Luke’s Gospel was written before the destruction of Jerusalem and at a time when Christians were being persecuted for practicing

can be concluded that the gospels written by both Luke and Matthew share similar sources of information used to write their scriptures. This evidence has been collected based on the incommon stories told throughout the scriptures in both of the gospels of the New Testament. The written texts of information believed to be shared by both Luke and Matthew is known as the Q source. (Ehrman 2012, 100) Ehrman agrees that both writers used the Q source; however he argues that Luke had to have used the original

The Gospel of Luke provides a window into the importance of social standards during the time of its writing. One social standard the community emphasized was the importance of the communal celebratory meal. In the Lukan community, these meals were used to display power, provide benefaction, and were also part of worship. Keeping with the emphasis of meals, Luke used the tradition of the Passover Meal to illustrate the Last Supper Narrative and its’ shift in meaning with regard to the new covenant

that the similarities between the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are just this: uncalled for and uncommon. This plagiarism issue is summed up at “the Synoptic Problem”, making the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke the synoptic gospels. The problem shows how many passages of the three gospels have the same wording, sometimes in the same order. However, the similarities balance out with the vast differences between what is included and what is not. The Gospel of Mark contains the most shared passages

of the Synoptic Gospels found in The Holy Bible. These include The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. When looking at them side by side readers will see that they have many differences and similarities. This has resulted in what is called The Synoptic Problem; that is, how do we account for these similarities and differences? Scholars have come up with an applicable solution called the four source solution Theory. This theory proposes that The Gospel of Mark was the first Gospel written and among

A) The are four Gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke, John) are the books in the New Testament. Each book tells its own story about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. B) Synoptic means to take a common view of something. The Gospel of John is not referred to as a synoptic gospel is because 75% of Matthew, Mark and Luke are all the same in each Gospel. 90% of John’s Gospel can not be found anywhere else in the Bible. C) Matthew Mark Luke John Author Matthew was a Jewish Christian John Mark

Mark, Matthew, John, and Luke are the four gospel writers that describe Jesus in different perspectives. In the Gospel of Matthew, presents the Messiah (Jesus), as the promised Savior, the King of the Jews and talks of wise men and their expensive gifts, but not as shepherds. For Mark, sees Jesus as a perfect servant of god. Also in Mark sees Jesus as mysterious and intentionally keeps people from understanding who he really is by telling the people he performs miracles on a secret. Jesus seems to

of Matthew and the book of Luke, God is portrayed in similar ways, and contain a basic universal story line of Jesus’s life and accomplishments. However, between the Gospels, there are differences in how Jesus is portrayed to the reader. Powell claims, “Matthew’s Gospel is often called ‘the teacher’s Gospel’ because it focuses so heavily on the teaching ministry of Jesus” (103). Matthew describes Jesus and his teachings in much more depth than any of the other Gospels. He travels throughout Galilee