Gospel in Retrospect

The Gospel in Retrospect

The New Testament consist of four gospels written by four narratives. Each Gospel is a perspective of each writer’s accounts of Jesus the Nazarian’s life These records are in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John of the New Testament. The writers of these Gospels wrote in a way that each Gospel will appeal to someone somehow. Whether they are Hebrew, Roman, or Greek. Whether they connect more to details, the main point, and love. The writers wrote in thoughts, feeling, and meaning. Some people are able to appeal more to Mark than Matthew or John to Luke and so on. This made each Gospel very important in its own way.

The Gospel of Matthew was seen as the second Gospel to be written but ordered first in the New Testament. Matthew was a Jew called from the position as a tax collector to an apostle of Jesus Christ (matt. 9:9) The purpose of the Gospel of Matthew was to prove that Jesus was the promised Messiah of the Old Testament. He recorded Jesus’ life and gives us the first birth story of Jesus, commonly referred to around Christmas time. Matthews writings appealed to the Jews through the genealogy method of David and Abraham. Matthew wanted to show that Jesus was indirectly a descent from David. Matthew was seen as a good transition from the Old Testament to the New testament as the writer used fulfillment quotations to prove the point of God’s destiny from the Old Testament. Matthew also relates Jesus’s birth and life story to that of Moses from the Old Testament.

Mark is the second Gospel in the order of the New Testament. He writes differently from the other Gospels. Which is why scholars believe that Mark was the first actual Gospel to be written and the others elaborated or obtained information from his recordings. Which is why scholars call Matthew, Mark, and Luke the Synoptic Gospels. Mark was an associate of the apostles specifically believed to have been Peter. He is quick to the point in his writing but also detailed. Marks writing starts off with the ministry if John the Baptist (mark 1) and Jesus being baptized by John (mark 1:9) leading to the resurrection of Jesus Christ (mark 16). Mark is believed to be writing specifically to the Roman leaders and churches, which is another reason this book differs from the others. Mark’s was fast in event; his purpose was to proclaim the kingdom of God. He understood there was a destiny to be fulfilled but he also understood how quickly we need to bare our own crosses (mark 8:34-38) toward the goal, possibly why his writing was quick and eventful.

Luke is the next book in the order of the Gospels. The writer of Luke was a very intelligent person, he writes with much detail and specification. Luke is referred to as a “beloved Physician” by Paul in Colossians 4:14. Luke had left practicing medicine to join Paul in missions. Luke is the first part to a two-part book of Luke and Acts. The book of Luke is very specific from start to finish of Jesus’ life. He records the most detail of Jesus’ birth than the other Gospels. Luke’s purpose in writing was to not only proclaim the Messiah and his works