Why are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke so similar, yet different? Modern scholars have developed four main approaches to the synoptic problem: That the evangelists tapped into testimonies ...

Wilfred L. Knox (1886–1950) was a theologian and fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Volume I of his Sources of the Synoptic Gospels was published posthumously in 1953. The gospels were written to ...

Matthew and Luke depend on Mark. Which is why those three gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are called the synoptic gospels. Because they can be understood together. But in terms of literary ...

For example, Jesus dies on a different day in John's gospel than in Matthew, Mark and Luke.... Whereas in the three synoptic gospels Jesus actually eats a passover meal before he dies, in John's ...

The Q source hypothesis is a prominent theory in New Testament scholarship that seeks to explain the literary relationship ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary for the Third Sunday before Advent at the end of this Year B is Mark 1.14-20, the beginning of ...

Q: I recently took a six-week theology class, and the priest teaching it was pretty emphatic that most don't make it to heaven. First, we must be without mortal sin. So, all those who forsake Mass or ...

See also 17:21. 34. It is unlikely, however, that John depends directly upon any of the Synoptic Gospels. See below, p. 17. 35. See Leistner, pp. 69-150, especially p. 71. 36. According to Luke 22:4, ...

One of John’s major differences with the Synoptic gospels is in the Temple Act — when Jesus drives the moneychangers from the Temple. In the Synoptic gospels, the provocation helps provide the ...

Is it okay to call God “Mother”? Well, what does God want to be addressed as, and how do we know what God wants? It’s all in the Bible. God has various titles in the Old Testament, but God’s “final ...

Readers that only know Shinie Antony for her witty, often whimsical, pieces in the national newspapers would be amazed at her ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...