New Testament

Essay 4 —“The Synoptic Gospels” The nature of the four Gospels When one opens the New Testament, he is introduced to four narratives which are concerned with the activity and teaching of Jesus of Christ. These records are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These four Gospels constitute a single literary genre and their central message is distinctive. Their content is similar, but their presentation of Jesus takes on a slightly different form. Each Gospel differs from the other. John is the most…

The lesson of the Beatitudes is written in two of the Synoptic Gospels, both Matthew 5:1-12 and Luke 6:20-26, in the New Testament. This teaching discusses people who are blessed and what they will receive, and this story is noted as an important teaching from the Gospels in the New Testament. The Beatitudes in both the Gospels of Matthew and Luke have overarching similarities, but there are also differences that make each story unique and help to convey a specific intention the author wants his…

“The Kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news.” (Mark 1:15). Bible is a collection of scared scripture in Christianity and it includes Old Testament and New Testament. The profound meaning of repentance in bible is that repenting lead to belief in God. Repentance is a spiritual turning that motivate change from self to God through the following methods: contract, causes and characteristics. The contrast of the repentance between Bible and Buddhism have different change of…

Women in early Christianity Women in the early Christianity did not have many or even any important role in society, it was more of a stay home cook, clean and child care type of role they had. St. Paul wrote 14 letters and one common thing they had would be that Paul did believe and wanted women to have equal rights as men. As well as Eisler in “The Chalice and the Blade” was explained how there are two models contributed to the Chalice and the Blade. And not to mention the important findings…

own words, Rabab tells the men of the king a lie that sends them to look for spies on the road to the fords of the Jordan River. Some readers are shocked that she would lie and yet have the respect she achieved in the book of Joshua and in the New Testament (Harris 27). Deception in Rehab’s case expresses her loyalty to the strangers who were her guests. Rehab’s deception is the way God rescues the blundering spies and ensures that the tribes will possess Canaan. In the scholar’s interpretation,…

confessed their sins in the Jordan River (Elwell and Yarbrough 109). He had a special call on his life “to bear witness about the light” (English Standard Version, John 1.8) of Jesus (Foster 65) and is recorded in all four of the Gospels of the New Testament. John’s entire ministry is a perfect example of the faithful servitude Christ calls each believer’s life to illustrate. The Gospel of Luke records that even as a baby yet unborn, John “leaped for joy” (Lk. 1.44) at the presence of the…

can be used as an adjective or a verb. In the Greek, the two words are telefos (adjective), and teleoo (verb). “Vine tells us these two Greek words mean “having reached its end, finished, complete, and perfect”. Thayer’s lexicon of the Greek New Testament gives the following meaning brought to its end, wanting nothing necessary to completeness;…

Job tells us in 19:25 that his redeemer is alive and there are references to mankind’s redeemer in Psalms and Proverbs and Isaiah makes many references to God as redeemer. Jeremiah also states that the Lord of heavenly forces is redeemer. In the New Testament, Luke and Galatians refer to God as redeemer. God created man, giving him free will, which man then exercised in disobedience to God’s command. This separated mankind from God and caused sin to enter the world. God did not suspend the…

Just like his predecessors, Louis the Pious and Charlemagne, Charles the Bald’s idea of empire was conceived as a rebirth of the Old Testament Jewish kingship symbolized by the very name of David and Solomon which he bore. The Carolingian emperor was charged with continuing Solomon’s work to protect and succor the Christian kingdom that was seen as a holy reflection of the kingdom of heaven…

Studying the New Testament Gospels requires one to look in-depth at the similarities and differences among these gospels and use those observations to gain insights into the messages behind them. Kurt Aland’s book Synopsis of the Four Gospels is helpful in this endeavor because it explores the four gospels and their stories into corresponding pericopes. The pericope focused on in this paper is Pericope 59, which dissects Matthew 5:43-48 and Luke 6:27-28, 32-36 and their versions of loving one’s…