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Although John is considered to have been inspired by Luke's Gospel, and by Mark to a lesser extent, the author felt free to alter the text and sequences much more freely than did the authors of Matthew and Luke when copying from Mark. This gospel omits the story of the temptation in the wilderness, allowing Jesus to return the day after his baptism to John the Baptist, who was standing with two of his disciples, one of whom was Andrew. On John's instructions, the two followed Jesus. Andrew then went and brought his brother, Simon Peter, to follow Jesus. The significant difference is not where or how the two disciples were called, but the fact that Peter was not first.
John's Gospel seems to have been written in part to downplay the importance of Peter in early Christianity, possibly because the author saw what he regarded as unhealthy veneration of Peter at the time he was writing, early in the second century. For the same reason, John also has an unknown disciple, the 'disciple whom Jesus loved', who appears in the gospel only when he can be compared favourably with Peter, once again subtly playing down the importance of Peter as a disciple of Jesus.
The author of John's Gospel believed the 40 days in the wilderness to be of little importance and, by omitting it, was able to portray Peter as not being the first disciple, but only the third, called by the perhaps more pious Andrew.
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Which gospel begins with saying this is the good news about Jesus Christ the Son of God?
Mark's Gospel, in the form it has come down to us, begins with these words. Some early manuscripts omit the words 'Son of God', so New Testament scholars are uncertain whether they were part of the gospel as originally written.
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The word omitting is a verb. It is the present participle of omit.
A sentence using the word omit?
the message was omit
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To omit is 'omettre' in French.
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To omit means to leave out. Here are some sentences.Don't omit my name from the invitation this time.If you're not careful, you might omit something important from your report.We will omit anything that is offensive before we publish the article.
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She decided to omit certain details from her report to keep the focus on the main findings.
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Put a minus sign before what you want to omit
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Omit means to leave out or exclude, intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes, scientist will omit Pluto when listing off the planets in the Solar System.
