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CyrilSebastian
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Why are the gospels of Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, and Saint Luke called the Synoptic Gospels? :bible1:
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sousley
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Think of “optic”; they are seen with as with one eye.
Meaning that they outline much of the same narrative story in the same way, while John, written later, includes some additional information besides what already existed at the time.
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Neofight
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Synoptic—seen through a single lens
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ohsnapitslennon
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Oh! My Scripture class coming in handy lol!
They use alot of each other’s verses. So they are “seen together”
John is too cool for that, though!
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JamesTheJust
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They overlap a lot, and are often though to be influenced by one another. The order of influence, authorship, and publication is hotly debated, and is known as the infamous Synoptic Problem. It’s very puzzling, and it’s one of the main subjects of deliberation between Biblical scholars.
po18guy
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By the Mosaic law, two or three agreeing witnesses determine the truth of a matter.
So also our Lord maintained that two or three would establish the truth of a dispute, and that a group of two or three gathered in His name testified to His presence.
Thus, two or three agreeing witnesses - synoptic Gospels - established the truth of the New Covenant and testified to the arrival and presence of the long awaited Messiah.
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abucs
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Does anybody have any thoughts about Mark and Luke’s Gospels overlapping because they travelled together and shared the same material?
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Neofight
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I believe because Luke (and Matthew, which contains 90% of what Mark wrote on) used Mark and Q as a guide (Mark having been written before the other gospels).
The interesting thing about Mark and Luke is that they were seen as substandard because they (Mark and Luke) we’re not Apostles like Matthew and John.
In fact, not knowing that Mark was written before Matthew, st. Augustine made some pretty disparaging comments about Mark…pretty much calling him a lackey to Matthew, and it lacked originality, essentially a regurgitation of Matthew’s gospel.
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steve53
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Patrick, still out there?
Post that great graphic!
Post that great graphic!
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CyrilSebastian
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Po18guy, I like the fact that you mentioned that “two or three witnesses”, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, “established the truth of the New Covenant and testified to the arrival and presence of the long awaited Messiah”.:tiphat:
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COPLAND_3
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Matthew Mark and Luke basically tell the same story but seem to be telling it to somewhat different audiences, which is one reason their details are often uneven with each other, that being because the Jew would need the Gospel presented to them in a somewhat different manner than the Gentle and vice versa. It would be like me telling a story about my dad’s life to my own family and also to people I don’t know. I would elaborate on details somewhat differently to each audience simply because my own family and strangers both require the same story adjusted to meet their prior knowledge about my dad.
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ProVobis
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Plus John was the only Apostle of the four, though some of the other Apostles wrote Epistles.
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JamesTheJust
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St Matthew was an Apostle too:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_the_Apostle
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_the_Apostle
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