Parallel Passage

As you may have known I have been doing a study in the gospels comparing the different versions presented by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. In doing this I have discovered that they kinda jump around a bit and aren't always chronologically identical.

This has added to the time it takes me to study, and to be honest without the help of the Gospelcom bible and it's search tool I wouldn't have been able to stick with it as easily.

So just in case you are interested I decided to put together some of the passages as I go along to make it easier for you to try it for yourself.

One thing you will notice is that due to John's Gospel focusing more on statements and relationships between Jesus and His disciples, events that occur are often only mentioned in the first three Gospels and are not included in John.

Finally if you don't like the translation that I used (the New Living Translation) then after you have gone to the page you can use "see this passage in" pull down box at the top of the page, change it to the translation of your choice, and click go. NIV - New International Version, or KJV - King James Version, are probably two that are the most popular or well known. Do bear in mind that as this is an American website though it will have spelling mistakes (honour, and colour for example).

Introduction

These pasages right from the get go show the differences between the Gospels and how they are written - I actually think it's quite cool how each one starts with something a little different.

  • Matthew - with His geneology
  • Mark - with the good news (Jesus IS the messiah & son of God)
  • Luke - a "summary" of events follows.
  • John - Jesus was the creator and is light to the world

The thing that stood out to me about these was how Luke mentions that this is only a summary of events - and that the reader of the letter Theophilus has probably heard many other stories beyond this - I wonder if anything interesting didn't make it into the new testament?

posted by Tim @ 10/22/2003 11:28:00 AM
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