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How was Matthew's Gospel influential in the writing of the other Synoptic Gospels?
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Modern scholars agree that there was a literary dependency but say that Mark's Gospel was actually the first New Testament gospel. They now realise that Matthew and Luke were copied from Mark.
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∙ 11y agoThe author of Matthew wanted to demonstrate that the life of Jesus was the fulfilment of the Hebrew scriptures. More than any other New Testament gospel, it contains references to the Old Testament, seeking to show that the life and mission of Jesus were foreshadowed or prophesied in the scriptures. However, he was influenced by the Septuagint, a flawed, early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, not by the original Hebrew versions. As a result, some material he used is not really true to the Old Testament books as written, but was influenced by earlier translation errors.
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Whom was the audience john was writing to?
The audience John was writing to in the Gospel of John is believed to be primarily gentile Christians, as evidenced by his focus on theological themes and the universality of Jesus' message. This sets it apart from the synoptic Gospels, which were written with a more Jewish audience in mind.
What language were the synoptic gospels written in?
A:The New Testament gospels were originally anonymous and modern biblical scholars say the second-century attributions to the apostles were speculative, rather than based on fact. Therefore, there is no reason to expect that, for example, Matthew's Gospel would have been written in Aramaic or Hebrew. The synoptic gospels were all written in Greek Koine, a dialect of Attic Greek. This can most readily be demonstrated by reading them in parallel in the original Greek language, when you will se that as the authors of Matthew and Luke copied from Mark, they often used exactly the same words in the Greek language. This would only be possible if they were working from a Greek copy of Mark and writing their new gospels out in the same language.
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What was Matthew's influence on writing the Bible?
A:Matthew, the disciple of Jesus, seems to have had no influence on writing the New Testament. When the Church Fathers first saw that there was a literary dependency among the synoptic gospels, they assumed that the gospel they would attribute to Matthew was the original and that Mark and Luke were copied from it. This would mean that Matthew's influence was very considerable, having not only written one gospel, but having two of the other gospels based on that original.Modern scholars agree that there is a literary dependency among the synoptic gospels but have established that the gospel the Church Fathers attributed to Mark was really the original and that most of Mark was copied by the author of Matthew. Not only do they say that Matthew was not written by an eyewitness to the events portrayed, but that it was largely derived from Mark and another source, the hypothetical 'Q' document.
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Which gospels are synoptic gospels?
A:The first three gospels are often referred to as the synoptic gospels. This is because the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke have many of the same stories, often in same sequence (although not always). There are even ocasions where they use the exact same wording. A:The Synoptic Gospels are Matthew, Mark and Luke. They are called synoptic because they are intriguingly similar and intriguingly different. The most common theory is that Mark is the oldest of these, and Matthew and Luke in various ways used Mark along with other material to create their individual narratives.Scholars believe that this other material consisted of material unique to each of Matthew and Luke (ie material they wrote themselves - called 'M' and 'L') and further material that is common to both Matthew and Luke but not found in Mark. This material consists mostly of the sayings of Jesus and scholars now believe that this came from a now lost source called 'Q' (from the German 'Quelle' meaning 'source').Other theories - for example, that Matthew (or Luke) is the oldest Gospel and Mark wrote his account later leaving outchunks of material was once a common belief, but modern textual criticism suggests that Mark was the first gospel to have been written with additions made by Luke and Matthew.
Some of the most influential legal writing are foun in the academic journals known as what?
The Talmud?
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What qualified John the Baptist to write one of the Gospels?
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How many parallel verses are there in the synoptic gospels?
The synoptic gospels are those attributed to Matthew, Mark and Luke. Their parallel verses are documented in the Harmony of the Gospels section of The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible published by Thomas Nelson Publishers, whose bibles also often contain this material, which covers the parallel verses of the four canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Since not all of the hundreds of parallels are contained in all three synoptic Gospels, an answer cannot be given as to the actual number, but following is a possible explanation for the parallel verses. The Gospel According to Mark was written in Greek, the universal language of the time, by an anonymous author who is commonly known as Saint Mark. The Gospel According to Mark was attributed to John Mark (also believed to be Marcus, son of the apostle Peter - I Pet. 5:13, KJV Bible, also Markus and Mark in other versions) beginning around 100 A.D. The Gospels According to Saints Matthew and Luke were written by anonymous authors and later attributed to Matthew and Luke. None of the synoptic gospel authors claimed to have been the persons traditionally associated with these gospels, or even to have been first-hand witnesses or to have known first-hand witnesses. 'Luke' went as far as to state that what he was writing was 'what we believe of things delivered to us by those who were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word from the beginning'. According to some scholars, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke main source of information on the life of Jesus was Mark's Gospel. Other scholars believe Mark's Gospel was based upon Matthew's Gospel. Some scholars believe the Gospels of Matthew and Luke used a hypothetical 'sayings of Jesus' document called the 'Q' document as a source for some of the sayings they attribute to Jesus. Although 'Q' is hypothetical, as there exists no early copy of it, and none of the early Church Fathers ever referred to it, scholars believe they may have been able to reconstruct much of its content by studying the Gospels. The supposition of the 'Q' document derived from the fact that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke reported many of the same sayings of Jesus, but maintained the sayings were uttered during different times and events in Jesus' ministry. Whenever the Gospels of Matthew and Luke agree upon a saying, the Greek text for that saying was the same in both gospels. The Gospel of Mark appears to have made little or no use of 'Q'.
What proportion of the New Testament is written by John Mark?
Apart from the epistles of Paul, we do not really know who wrote any of the books of the New Testament - even the four New Testament gospels were originally anonymous. However, Eusebius, writing in the fourth century, says that Papias attributed a gospel to John Mark, early in the second century. The gospel Papias is said to have attributed to John Mark is probably the book now known as Mark's Gospel, a small proportion of the New Testament but hugely important as the basis for each of the other synoptic gospels, and indirectly for John's Gospel.
What books of the bible are part of the gospels?
The Gospels are the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They are the first four books of the New Testament.
