The first four books of the New Testament are called the Gospels. Four men, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write down the life of Jesus. Each man had different reasons for writing and different people they were writing to so their books didn’t all have to be identical; just accurate. Many more people wrote about Jesus, but only these four testimonies made it into the canon of the New Testament. As John MacArthur’s Study Bible explains, only these four books were necessary to form “a complete testimony about Jesus Christ.” The first book of the New Testament, The Gospel According to Matthew, was probably written between 50-70 A.D. Matthew wrote it to a predominantly Jewish audience and his goal was to “demonstrate that Jesus is the Jewish-nation’s long-awaited Messiah” (MacArthur). He introduces his book as “the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ” (Matthew 1:1), then he quotes the Old Testament’s …show more content…
The authors didn’t sit down and write these books together; they each wrote at different times and places, yet they share many of the same stories. Even the different stories that are shared don’t contradict anything in the other books, amazingly. This is why they’re called the “synoptic gospels,” as ‘synoptic’ means ‘seen together’ or ‘sharing a common point of view’. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, these testimonies of Christ accurately portray the events of His life, death, and resurrection. Every concrete fact we know about Jesus is in these gospels. Everything we need to know about His lineage, birth, early life, later ministry (including His miracles and teachings), crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension, etc, has been covered in these books. If we have all the tangible facts of Jesus in these three books, then, why would there need to be a fourth
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Approaching the Scriptures from a Jewish viewpoint, as discussed in class, is well supported in Brettler’s book. Through his preparatory teaching on what the Hebrew Bible in itself is, and how one should read it, a ground is laid. Explaining the difference between the “Christian Bible” and “Hebrew Bible” is a vital inclusion. The Christian Bible passages, called the Old Testament, are read with the belief that they lead into the New Testament. The Hebrew Bible does contain a New Testament, so one would not read it within the same frame of reference.
A pile of cards or even a flip of a coin can decide one of the most important choices of a person's life. For some, this choice is only for the moment, for others it will impact them for the rest of their lives. This is no exception for the Scottish play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare basing his stories often on events that even occurred well before Shakespearian time is somewhat hard to fathom, but this is not the only aspect that influenced that story of Macbeth, Shakespeare also is influenced by the current rulers of the time for Macbeth, this was King James the first a strong believer in witchcraft. This brings forth a pivotal set of characters that aid the main theme and also driving force for most of Macbeth, fate.
Much of the New Testament talks about the life of Jesus, and these books were written by Jesus' disciples. The original texts that made up the Bible are gone or lost, and have been copied various times to preserve the teachings.
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 first four books of the New Testament, collectively referred to as “The Gospels,” are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Defined, gospel means “good news” (BD, 682). Together, these gospels written by distinctly different authors, each with a different perspective, offer marvelous insight into the life and ministry of the Savior and Redeemer, Jesus the Christ. Through their similarities and differences, they provide a beautiful testimony of his teachings and works to provide a dynamic and living picture of who Jesus is: a King, Christ in action, a human, and as the light and life of the world. Each author is striving to bring the good news of who the Son of God is and his amazing and infinite Atonement, to all mankind.
All four of the synoptic Gospels are all unique because they were each written by a different author and for different audiences. Each one had their own sources that reflected different stories of Jesus and the way he lived. They each complement each other with their similarities and differences and help complete our understanding of who Jesus was and is for us today.
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 new testament contains four (4) accounts of the story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection as presented by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, The 3 accounts are similar, while Johns bible presents Jesus in a unique way. These differences exist because Matthew and Luke got their information from Mark and John got his information from another source, maybe John did not have access to the other gospels or he chose not to use them. No one really knows the source of John’s gospel and we don’t know for sure who wrote the gospels. Scholars refer to the authors as Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, this may not even be their real names. The Gospel were not first hand accounts except for Mark. John did not seem to have known the existence of the other
The Gospels are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Each had a different author in which they each had a different audience placed in different time periods for different reasons. In this case one writer may include certain details that the other writers did not include. The four gospels flow together without any discrepancies but the first three gospels are referred to as the synoptic gospels. This means they look
The Gospel according to Matthew is the first book in the New Testament, and also serves as a bridge between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The gospel tells us of Jesus and his teachings. It is believed that the Gospel originated with Matthew, one of Jesus' disciples, and it circulated anonymously (Harris 149). The message in this gospel was compiled to minister to a Jewish and Jewish-Christian community when tensions between early Christians and postwar Jewish leaders aggravated bitter controversy. The Gospel of Matthew was written as an encouragement to the Greek-speaking Jewish Christians and Gentiles who were, at least partly, Torah observant during the 80s C.E. probably at Antioch in Syria
The history of the New Testament canon is even more colorful. During the first few hundred years of the early Christian era, there was no official canon that the entire Christian world recognized. The Eastern and Western church traditions each used a differing list of books as scripture. Before 200 a.d., the Church fathers did not even mention Philemon, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, and Jude. The status of these books was murky at best until after 400 a.d..
The first three gospels are sometimes called the 'synoptic' (same view) gospels. This is because they each cover teaching and miracles by Jesus that are also covered in another account. John, writing later, recounts Jesus' other words and miracles that have a particular spiritual meaning.
At the end of the second century it begin to be evident which of these writing would be accepted as a part of the New Testament. There was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings that claim to have been accepted are a composition of twenty-seven books, that were written over a one hundred year period extending roughly from 50 to 150 A.D. Around that time the New Testament documents began to circulate among the churches, and those documents included what are now know as epistles, gospels, memoirs, apocalypses, homilies, and collections of teachings.
The New Testament was canonized over a period of approximately four hundred years (Stotesberg). From AD 50-125, the books which in the end constitute the New Testament were written. Simultaneously, other books, which did not end up being included in the final canon, were produced. These books are the Epistle of Barnabas, the Didache, I Clement, the seven letters of Ignatius of Antioch, etc. (“Development of the Difficult Canon”). As more and more books were written, Christians realized that it was imperative that they gather and consolidate this material before it became lost. Sometime before AD 100, ten of Paul’s letters were gathered and combined into their own canon. The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) were combined to form another canon soon after the canonization of Paul’s letters. The Gospels and Paul’s letters became the main body of a new group of Scriptures that would soon become the New Testament. Soon Acts, I Peter, I John, and Revelation were inserted into this body of Scripture. Following this, the rest of the books were added to the New Testament (Barker).