Revealing his power over evil forces has made Jesus not attractive, or impressive, but frightening. People want him to go away. Only the Synoptic Gospels describe Jesus as performing exorcisms: John ...

It’s not a continuation with the High Table. John dealt with his grief. It will be really different, and everybody [will] see the trailer and go, ‘Holy fuck… I gotta see that.’” ...

Christianity, it’s also important to remember that there are other paths commended by the other gospels. A very different verbal exchange marks the end of Luke. Instead of a call to go, the disciples ...

Tradition attributes the gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But each gospel is actually anonymous, while the traditional attributions only appear about 150 years after Jesus lived.

The first three Gospels (the "Synoptic Gospels"), but not John, feature many parables, and several of the same parables are found in parallel versions in Matthew, Mark and Luke.

St. Andrew, whose feast day is Nov. 30, was one of the two initial disciples of John the Baptist who encountered Jesus at the beginning of John’s Gospel.

That’s why the Gospel in the “usual” place in Mass is the Passion narrative. Before the 1970 liturgical reform in the Catholic Church, for example, it was the Passion according to Matthew.

Whereas the other three gospels (which are called the synoptic gospels, in church-speak) tell the Jesus stories fairly straightforwardly, John writes his whole biography of Jesus on a kind of ...