Comparing John And The Gospel Of John

The synoptic Gospels are text from Jesus’ disciples Matthew, Luke, and Mark. Context from the synoptic Gospels show that Mark is most likely the first one to have his Gospel written. These three Gospels are all very similar in the themes and events. These Gospels took place as they were on their quest with Jesus to spread the word of God. All three Gospels correlate well with one another because they focus on Jesus’ quest from Galilee to Jerusalem.In contrast, in the Gospel of John, Jesus’ ministries lasted for a much longer time than the period of jesus ministries in the synoptic Gospels. In the Gospel of John, John left out a lot of details that was described in the synoptic gospels. The stories that were left out in the Gospel of John were

Through history, we know that Luke is known as the writer of his gospel even though the author is anonymous. The events that take place is set in a different order in his gospel so as to illustrate the themes more relevantly. However, while in Mark, Jesus gathers his apostles before he starts performing miracles, Luke places the recruitment scene after the first miracles have already happened. Such differences further contribute to solving the synoptic problem. Scholars have identified an 89 percent of Mark’s material within Matthew’s gospel and a 72 percentage in Luke, many choose to regard Mark as the first to have written his gospel. Thus, quite a few rely their investigations on what the first method (which is also referred to as the Markan priority) assumes, that the other two gospels were highly dependant on Mark and the nonexistent document defined as Q. Moreover, another document by the name of ″M″ has been identified as an additional source for Matthew, besides Mark and Q, while ″L″ is believed to have represented a subsequent source of inspiration for Luke (Thomas 2002, 9). However, such assumed dependencies are not subject to modern thinking alone but have been indicated much earlier by Augustine himself. He believed, however, that it was Matthew who wrote first while Mark was inspired by the former and Luke, consequently, was inspired by Mark. There are also opinions as to Matthew having been the first of writers whom Luke used as an inspiration and Mark allegedly based his gospel on the other two. A third suggestion implies that Mark indeed wrote his gospel first while Matthew and Luke independently used his book as inspiration. Defenders of Matthean priority allude to such facts as Matthew’s writing depicting his occupation of a tax collector. From their point of view, there are numerous relevant