The Influence Of Jesus In The Four Gospels

Each of the four gospels share the answers of who Jesus is and what he has done for us in four distinctively different ways. Through stories, letters, and reoccurring parables, if one does not understand Jesus’ identity and his divine works through one gospel, they can look to another to gain a clearer understanding. The story where the question of paying taxes to Caesar is posed to Jesus appears in all three Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Each Synoptic has a different way of describing Jesus Christ’s works and integrity that may impact the interpretation of the story. Also, Jesus’ answer in the Synoptics are quite similar but nevertheless, has a meaningful influence on today’s American audience. Throughout the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is referred to as a teacher. A teacher is who Jesus is called by the Pharisees when they set out to “trap him in his words”. This description of Jesus, that is included in …show more content…
The answer each time will be God, not politics, for everything on earth is His and should be rendered to Him. When we turn from the dependence of God to the dependence of humans in the realm of politics, we disappoint our Father and hurt ourselves searching for answers to problems that only God himself knows. In this day and age, with so much evil in the world, today’s American audience should take a step back to not question Jesus as the Pharisees, Herodians, and spies did in the Synoptics, but question and redirect themselves as a whole to turn towards God for direction. In doing so we are serving the Lord by following his path and staying from idolatry as explained in Exodus 20:3-6, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your