The Synopted View Of Jesus In John's Gospel

John’s Gospel omits a lot of the important events such as: the temptations of Jesus, the Lord’s supper, Garden of Gethsemane, and the casting out of demons showing signs that John was not aware of the synoptic Gospels when writing. “These stories make up the backbone of the Synoptic accounts of Jesus.” (Ehrman, 181) However these omissions of information allowed for new information to be added into the Fourth Gospel such as Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in John 11. John was writing the gospel of John to share Jesus' divine nature and confessions of who He is and by not having the same information included it strengthen the idea that the Fourth Gospel was written to reflect eyewitness testimony concerning Jesus’s life and ministry to convey who he was in his deity with God. Without these exclusions this would be just another Synoptic gospel without the deity and divinity of Jesus being clarified. “We know that one distinctive feature of this Gospel is the exalted view of Jesus.” (Ehrman, 190) Ehrman makes it clear that in the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke while …show more content…
This was a huge topic during this time period and even today. Without John’s writing to confirm Jesus life through ministry and his divinity it would still not be clarified. The idea of who the “Messiah” was would still be in the air, important “I AM” statements of Jesus would be missing, and just the idea of “Who Jesus is” would not be the same without John’s writing. I think it is clear the John did not have access to the Synoptic Gospel and it was not just coincidence he did not. As stated without John’s writing there would be so many unanswered question about Jesus, giving God the idea to let John write his gospel based off the testimonies of Jesus and his teaching that John would see throughout his life, to better authentic who Jesus of Nazareth