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 ...

The Meaning of "the Jews" in the Gospel of John The Jewishness of Jesus shines through the Synoptic Gospels, even though they are all distinctly Christian documents, because it is enshrined in the ...

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

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

C. H. Dodd's Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically biblical ...

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 ...

Each of the four Gospels tells us something about the influence on the author, and the audience to whom they are writing. Luke records many of the same events found in the other two synoptic ...

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 ...

These words of the opening prologue of the fourth gospel provide a clue to the nature of this work: it stands apart from the three synoptic gospels ... semi-divine hero, John's Jesus resembles ...