Luke begins his gospel much like his predecessors. In his introduction to the gospel, Luke promises a gospel as factually correct as possible with the information he has from both oral tradition of events, the facts given from eye witnesses, and hints at a revision of earlier writings to ensure they correlate with the information… Continue reading →
Luke introduces his gospel by stating that he is going to give an orderly account of what he believes happened. He promises to present the truth to back up everything that is currently being taught. Throughout his prologue, Luke presents his information in a what seems to be a pretty educated manner. Luke wants to… Continue reading →
With little known about the author of Luke, we can tell from the prologue that the information used in his gospel was from both of Mark and Matthew’s gospels as well as Q and other oral stories. We know that Luke evaluated/investigated all material he had very carefully and promised “to write an orderly account… Continue reading →
Matthew included the genealogy of Jesus to help support the claim that Jesus was a descendant of the kingdom of David, and therefore could be and is the Messiah. The most pronounced information is that the author shows the parallels between fourteen generations between the great Jewish figures of including Abraham to David, David to… Continue reading →
Brendan Everton 4/13/15 REL 223 Intro to the Bible Blog Post Matthew starts his gospel much differently than the other gospels. He receives extra information about the character of Jesus which he ads to his picture of Jesus to give him more of a heroic image. Back in the day of ancient Rome heroes were… Continue reading →
The Gospels of Matthew and Mark have some very similar passages, but the beginnings of each Gospel are very different. Mark’s story does not offer an explanation for the early life of Jesus, but simply refers to him as Jesus from Nazareth and begins with the good news of the Baptism of Jesus Christ,… Continue reading →
Matthew begins his story of Jesus quite differently than Mark does. He begins by laying out a large line of generations of people up to when Jesus was born. I believe he does this in order to prove that Jesus was not some random person that people knew nothing about and/or where he came from.… Continue reading →
