Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path ( Psalm 119:105)

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path ( Psalm 119:105).

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ONE Gospel OR 4 Gospels?. Though we speak of four Gospels, in reality there is only ONE “Gospel –.

“gospel” (in Greek euangelion; evangelium = Latin) literally means “good news”..

Announcement of the good news of the victory in a battle;.

Religious. Sense = Saving action of God. Is 52:7 = provides background for NT.

Is 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns.".

The term evangelion is used 76 times in the NT (60 are in Paul)..

It is this one Gospel that lies behind the four Gospels written by the four Evangelists..

The Greek NT Title has as “The Gospel according to Matthew” - Kata Matthaion,.

Always used in singular “Gospel”. = One Gospel = Gospel of JC..

GOSPELS ARE NOT BIOGRAPHIES OF JESUS. The primary intention of a biographer:.

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The Gospels of Mark and John tell us nothing about Jesus' birth, childhood and early life..

John never mentions the NAME of the mother of Jesus (Mary);.

How did Jesus look like?. Tall, handsome, with mass of flowing hair…. (from movies…).

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Jesus did not write anything. His words were passed along orally for decades.

Please NOTE:. NO Gospel gives us a complete and IMPARTIAL account of Jesus’ life..

Gospels: They are documents of faith, written by believers for believers..

The Gospels themselves make no claim as to their authorship..

Irenaeus (ca.180 AD), added his belief that Luke, the follower of Paul, put down in a book the gospel preached by that apostle..

Opinion of modem scholars= Mark's is the earliest Gospel.

Each of the Gospels was written at a different time;.

However, the first three Gospels, namely, Matthew, Mark and Luke, share a basic narrative core and include considerable common material, and therefore they are known as "Synoptic Gospels"..

The Gospels are intended to be an account of what “Jesus did and taught” (cf. Acts 1:1; Mt 4:23). But none of the Evangelists took down in shorthand what Jesus said;.

We know that Luke was not an eyewitness of Jesus’ ministry;.

THE THREE STAGES IN THE FORMATION OF THE GOSPEL TRADITION:.

Historical Jesus – Born in Bethlehem. (Legal) Parents: Mary and Joseph.

Jesus chose companions who travelled with him and saw and heard what he said and did..

The first stage is also called the stage of the “ipsissima verba Jesu” (the very words of Jesus),.

How could one say that what we have in the Gospels are the ipsissima verba Jesu?.

However, we DO have some Aramaic expressions preserved in the Gospels, for example, “Abba” (Mk 14:36), “Talitha cumi” (“Little girl, arise”, Mk 5:41), “Ephphata” (:be opened”, Mk 7:34), “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabach-thanii” (“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me”, Mk 15:34)..

It is to be remembered here that, though the Evangelists do not hand down to us the ipsissima verba Jesu, yet they preserve the essential message of Jesus..

The Second Stage is that of the Preaching of the Apostles (30-66 AD) (Stage of the Oral Tradition).

This change of language involved translation in the broadest sense of that term..

Some of the differences in the Synoptic tradition are due to this sort of accommodation..

3) The Third Stage; The Written Gospels (67-100 AD).

The recognition that the evangelists were not eyewitnesses of Jesus’ ministry is important for understanding the differences among the Gospels..

The central focus of all the four Gospels is the one and same Jesus..

They present a common picture of Jesus who begins his ministry of teaching and healing in Galilee;.

Same sequence;. vocabulary,. Style. theology;. they form a special group and are called "Synoptic Gospels"..

The term “synoptic” is an adjective;. from the noun “synopsis”.

The term “synoptic” goes back to a German biblical scholar J. J. Griesbach..

There are striking agreements between three Gospels (as mentioned): sequence of events narrated; in language and style..

Is this similarity due to the literary relationship of the first three Gospels to one another?.

They do not simply record events in chronological order;.

Now the question is:. How can we explain the striking agreements between the first three Gospels, and how can we explain the differences that exist in spite of the extensive agreements?.