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A:Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as synoptic gospels because they are moderately similar in content. We now know that this comes about because the authors of Matthew and Luke copied much of the content of Mark, often in exactly the same words in the Greek language, as a parallel reading in Greek will show.

John's Gospel was not copied from Mark, like the others, but is loosely based on Luke. Being one step removed from the original, and having been written by an author somewhat less concerned with preserving the original content, John differs quite substantially from the others, especially Matthew. For this reason, it is not considered a 'synoptic gospel'.

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