Which book covers the life of Jesus?

Answer 1

A:No book covers the entire life of Jesus, but the New Testament gospels are based on his life. The first gospel to be written about Jesus was Mark's Gospel, now recognised as being written about 70 CE. It describes the period of his mission, until his crucifixion and resurrection, a period of apparently less than 12 months. The emphasis in Mark is on the last week of the life of Jesus.

By a parallel reading in the original Greek language, scholars can see that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were largely based on Mark's Gospel, but they have additional events and stories about this period in the life of Jesus. It is from Luke's Gospel that we know Jesus began his mission around 29 CE. Matthew and Luke also deal with the birth and childhood of Jesus. Matthew describes how Joseph and Mary fled from Bethlehem to Egypt out fear of Herod, beginning to return to their home in Bethlehem after the death of Herod but then, being warned in a dream, turned aside and travelled to Nazareth in Galilee instead. Luke describes how Joseph travelled with Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, for a census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. A few days after the birth of Jesus they returned peacefully to their home in Nazareth but returned to Jerusalem each year for the Passover.

John's Gospel is loosely based on Luke's Gospel, but omits the story of the birth and childhood of Jesus. In describing the mission of Jesus, it says that Jesus travelled to Jerusalem three times for the Passover, thus showing this to have been a period of three years.

Answer 2

"The Bible" covers the life of Jesus, particularly the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These books provide accounts of Jesus's teachings, miracles, crucifixion, resurrection, and impact on Christianity.

Answer 3

A:The gospels are the stories about the life and mission of Jesus, but they were written anonymously and remained so until the second century, when the early Church Fathers sought to establish who probably wrote each of the gospels we now have, assigning them to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, modern New Testament scholars say there is no good reason to accept these attributions, particularly as none of the gospels could have been written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed.

Thus, second-century tradition says that Matthew, Mark, luke and John wrote about the life of Jesus, but since we do not really know who wrote the gospels that contain the stories of Jesus we can not really say who wrote them.