GOSPELS
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Background to the symbols used in the Bible about evangelists / gospels
Ezekiel 1: 5-10
Their faces were like the faces of a man, but on the right was the face of a lion and on the left the face of a bull, and yet they had the face of an eagle, all four alike. Each creature had two wings at the top spread wide so that they touched the wings of the others, and with two wings they covered their bodies. They all walked in the direction of their faces, where the spirit led them. As they passed, they did not turn.
Revelation 4: 7
One resembled a lion, another a young bull, a third looked like a human face, and a fourth looked like a flying eagle.
How were the gospels born?
The information we receive from the Gospels is not the only information written by an eyewitness.
Jesus' speeches were first memorized by those close to him. After Jesus died, they told what Jesus had taught and done. This became a way of teaching in the churches. This was the reason why Jesus ’words and stories about him were expanded, modified, and modified. The intention was that in the new situation of the church (the Jesus movement) they still felt eloquent, they could be invoked to explain the foundations of the nascent Christian faith.
From this situation, the evangelists continued to edit and interpret the "Jesus account."
We modern people should write this way as a distortion of history, but this is not the case for evangelists. Indeed, they did not seek to present historically and slavishly copy the material they received, but the purpose of the writing was religious teaching. Spiritual truth rose to a higher goal than historical truth
The interrelationships of the Gospels in the birth process. Synoptic problem
Mark, Matthew, and Luke are in a relationship of mutual influence, according to the study. These gospels are therefore called synoptic gospels
Mark
written in Rome or in Antioch in Syria in the 60s and 70s
Stresses that Jesus was the Son of God.
The beginning: "The good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, set in motion like this."
The miracles of Jesus
The Gospel of Matthew
written in Syria in the 80s
Emphasizes Jesus as a teacher
Sermon on the mountain
The Gospel of Luke
written in the 90s in Rome
Historical description of events
The Gospel of John
Written in the 100s in Syria
doctrinal interpretation of the words of Jesus
These four gospels were adopted into the present canon = Bible Book Collection at the Council of Carthage 397
Apocryphal (= excluded from the canon) gospels include: