10/12/2016 Blog post # 3

The Four Gospel writers


1.  What are specific things that you learned about the Gospel Writers from the group presentations?
- There are four Gospel writers who are Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. The first one is Mark, the second is Matthew, the third one is Luck and the last one is John.
- For Mark, He wrote in 70 AD. He is writing for people who are on the disciple of Jesus. The symbol of Mark was The Winged lion. The original language of his book is greek.
- For Matthew, He wrote his book between AD 80- 90.  The Gospel of Matthew is anonymous: the author is not named within the text. The original language of his book is Greek. And the symbol of Matthew is Winged Man.
- For Luke, He is the third gospel writer. He wrote between 80-100 AD. It tells the original, birth, death, ministry, recurrent, and ascension of Jesus. The symbol of him is Winged Ox.
- For John, He is the last gospel writer,  The Gospel of John is anonymous, its author only identified as "the Disciple whom Jesus loved." The symbol of him is Eagle.

2. When reading and comparing, what are specific differences that you see in the 4 Gospels?
- There are four Gospel writers, the first one is Mark, the second is Matthew, the third one is Luck and the last one is John. They all write the Crucifixion, The death of Jesus, and The Burial of Jesus. The first of three record the facts of Jesus, they are most similar, some words are used same in their book. So they are called synoptic Gospel. However John are different form them, he records the spiritual of jesus.
-Different between those 4 gospel for their writing, Mark 15;22-47, Matthew 27; 33-66, Luke 23; 33-56, John 19; 17-42.  In John's writing, he does not mention the the darkness in the middle of the day. but Matthew, Luke, and Mark all state that.

3. When reading and comparing, what are specific similarities that you see in the 4 Gospels?

- There are some different, and also some similar. The four Gospel writers all record the same things about Jesus, the Crucifixion, The death of Jesus, and the Burial of Jesus. Their events are same. And for the first three writers, they used some same words to describe. For example, In the Death of Jesus, they all said; " Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani" which means, " My God my God, why have you forsaken me?" And In The Crucifixion all of them mentioned the place called Golgotha ( Which means Place of the Skull)
- Their writes are all about Jesus's events.

4. How does each writer portray Jesus in their Gospel?

- In Matthew, He portray Jesus as the king. He most write some events about Jesus and show how Jesus's great. His purpose was to demonstrate who Jesus was and show how Jesus is great through some events. For example he writes the 27; 33-66. In his writing he just states the story of how jesus died and how he says to his disciples that after three days he will rise up. 

- In Mark's writing, He portray Jesus as a servant of god. 

- In Luke's writing, Luke portray Jesus as a son of men. 

- In John's writing,  He wrote to the church describing how Jesus felt about peoples’ reaction to His ministry.