What Bible stories are missing from John's Gospel that the Matthew Mark and Luke have?

Answer 1

A:First, it may be useful to review those very important stories missing from one or more of the synoptic gospels. Mark's Gospel was the first New Testament gospel to be written and does not have a nativity account, because these were developed separately by the authors of Matthew and Luke respectively. Mark originally ended at verse 16:8 with the young man telling the women that Jesus was risen and they fled in terror, telling no one. The 'Long Ending' (verses 16:9-20) was added much later, more or less harmonising with aspects of the resurrection appearances in Matthew and Luke. Because of the 'Missing Block', Luke omits the miracle of Jesus walking on water and the related miracles and discourses of the Greek woman, the Pharisees complaint about the disciples eating with unwashed hands, feeding the 4000 and Jesus' summary of feeding the thousands.

John was loosely based on Luke, but has some material taken direct from Mark, so it also omits the material omitted in Luke's Missing Block, but does have the story of Jesus walking on water (6:15-21). John omits the forty days in the wilderness, having Jesus instead commence his public ministry the day after his baptism, and omits the Transfiguration. It omits parables, many discourses, Jesus' prediction of his death and the cursing of the fig tree. John moves the Cleansing of the Temple from the very end of Jesus' mission to the beginning, leading many Christians to assume that there were two identical events, at two different times.

The real difference between John's Gospel and the synoptic gospels is not so much in what is left out, but the stories that have been changed from the synoptic versions or added in John.