Mark shows Jesus came from Nazareth, demonstrating that Jesus is a Servant (Mark 1:9).
Matthew shows Jesus came from Abraham through David, and demonstrates that He is the Messiah promised in the Old Testament (Matthew 1:1-17). Each of the Gospels emphasizes a different origin of Jesus. John centers his Gospel on what Jesus said and did in Jerusalem.ĭ. The first three Gospels center on Jesus’ ministry in Galilee. There are significant events in the ministry of Jesus that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all include yet John leaves out, including:Ĭ. This is one reason why John’s account of the life of Jesus is in many ways different from Matthew, Mark, and Luke.ī. The Gospel of John was probably the last of the four written, and written in view of what the previous three had already said. 185-254) understood that there are not really four gospels, but there is one four-fold gospel.Ī. Christian writers as early as Origen (A.D. 
The Gospel of John is the fourth section of what some call the four-fold gospel, with four voices giving different perspectives on the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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