Whose Jesus is REAL? Comparing Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John - New Testament Gospels.

What is the difference between the four gospels? What if we compare the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? Whose Jesus is REAL? In “The Cambridge Companion to Jesus” a range of biblical scholars describe how differently the canonical gospels depict Jesus. For example, Dr. Stephen C. Barton states: “The accounts of the life of Jesus in the four canonical gospels are irreducibly diverse. Each has an integrity of its own… we have to speak of ‘the Jesus of Matthew’, ‘the Jesus of Mark’, and so on. Harmonisation (i.e. trying to make all four gospels say the same thing), at least at the level of what the gospels actually say, is not possible… What it does mean is that our knowledge of Jesus will always be partial, always open to correction” (pg. 177). All four canonical gospels were written in different periods of time, decades apart, in different geographical locations and for different groups of people. Therefore, each of them focuses on what exactly concerned the communities of people to whom they were addressed. As a result, the portrait of Jesus in each of them appears diverse. This review focuses on such differences.

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Comparing the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
The difference between the four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

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Crossan John Dominic, 1991. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco.
Bart Ehrman, 2009. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them).
James D. Tabor & Simcha Jacobovici. 2013. The Jesus Discovery: The New Archaeological Find That Reveals the Birth of Christianity.
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