In AD 180 he may have known examples of the four gospels bound together in one codex. |
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In the 2nd Century AD the first four books of the New Testament were known as gospels. |
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The Holy Spirit even reveals things taught during Jesus' ministry but not recorded in any of the four gospels. |
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It is the language of the Psalms, the stories of the patriarchs, the parables of the gospels, the moral vocabulary of St. Paul's epistles. |
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And so began intensive historical study of the gospels and their sources which continues to this day. |
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We know that shortly after AD 150 Tatian composed a harmony of the four gospels. |
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But by analysing the changes made in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, we can see what Jesus did not say. |
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In the gospels of social engineering this transformation was leading to a future Utopia of welfare capitalism. |
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Modern readers of the gospels usually assume that the disciples were poor and uneducated. |
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In story after story in the gospels, humility and lowliness before the Lord seem to tug at his heart, opening his love and mercy. |
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It is worth noting at the outset that scholars have often mistakenly assumed that these are mutually exclusive ways of approaching the gospels. |
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Although there may have been as many as 50 pseudepigraphal gospels, most are known only by name from a few isolated statements by early church writers. |
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This aspect sometimes appears clearly in the gospels even if we are not accustomed to noting it or looking at it for itself. |
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View him as we see him in the gospels and in the book of Revelation. |
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In the gospels, Jesus often tells those who come to him for healing that their sins are forgiven. |
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In all of this, the Gospel of Matthew, more than the other canonical gospels, lives and breathes the shared historical memories of the Israelites and Jesus Movement people. |
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We need to read the letters of Paul before we read the gospels, and we need to read the gospels as testimonies of faith written to settle disputes within the early church. |
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Narrative criticism has made a major impact on study of the gospels. |
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Some had their own gospels, with stories and sayings of Jesus. |
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We shall dwell for a while on the gospels, since they witness to the importance of the pharisaic movement. |
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The Gnostics shortened the Judaizing gospels and only kept intact the Johannine writings. |
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It comprises a Maltese cross made of a four-petal Lily of France, symbolizing the four gospels. |
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The passion of Jesus, which started with His battle in the soul at Gethsemane takes a lot of room in the gospels. |
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One does not have to read very deeply in the scholarly literature on eschatology, the gospels, or Christology before running into the writings of Richard Bauckham. |
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In some places, the use of more colloquial language seems to work and not detract from the original gospels, but in other places, it came across to me as contrived. |
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This led him to take the progressive objectives of the gospels and use them to provide part of a framework for the radical agenda of community organising. |
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The placement of Q material in Luke and Matthew disagrees at certain points according to the needs and theologies of the addressees of the gospels, but in Matthew the Marcan chronology is the basic scheme into which Q is put. |
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Remove those healing stories, and the gospels simply fall to pieces. |
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Another movement in synoptic research and also research including John is that which concentrates rather on the treatment of gospels as a whole, formally and theologically, with patterns or cycles to be investigated. |
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Why are the gospels so discreet concerning Judas' motives? |
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In fact, on the day of the ordination of a deacon, the bishop hands the book of the gospels and says: believe what you read, teach what you believe, live what you teach. |
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Our duty of state is the best answer that we can give to these strange clamors, so alien to the gospels, which invite us to garner reserves of all kinds while the birds of the air neither sow nor reap. |
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Asked to compose and arrange for the recording of the gospels on compact disc, his work received the official recognition of the national and international oecumenical authorities. |
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The formation of the canon meant that special revelation ended with the death of the Apostles and that no authority could be attached to the apocryphal gospels, acts, and apocalypses proliferating in the 2nd century. |
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This Hebrew proto-Gospel is divided into four Greek gospels which are fragmented into a multitude of evangelical legends, written in all the Oriental idioms. |
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According to the gospels, Jesus called a group of men to be his disciples. |
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According to the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary. |
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Little of Jesus' childhood is recorded in the canonical gospels, although infancy gospels were popular in antiquity. |
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Each of the four gospels in the New Testament narrates the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. |
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The first three gospels listed above are classified as the Synoptic Gospels. |
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The Epistle of Jude quotes the book of Enoch, and some believe the use of this book also appears in the four gospels and 1 Peter. |
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Irenaeus first established the doctrine of four gospels and no more, with the synoptic gospels interpreted in the light of the Gospel of John. |
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Irenaeus was the first to propose that all four gospels be accepted as canonical. |
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So the gospels made them the deicides, the Christ killers, all of them and all of their descendants forever accursed. |
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The Gnostic tradition was a prolific source of apocryphal gospels. |
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These three gospels are called the Synoptic gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in the same sequence, and sometimes exactly the same wording. |
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Whatever these admittedly early ascriptions may imply about the sources behind or the perception of these gospels, they are anonymous compositions. |
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Subsequently, in the gospels, Andrew is referred to as being present on some important occasions as one of the disciples more closely attached to Jesus. |
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The gospels were then enclosed in a gold book cover set with gems. |
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The Orthodox Church understands the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus to be real historical events, as described in the gospels of the New Testament. |
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A campaign exists to have the gospels housed in the North East of England. |
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The gospels of Matthew and Mark and the beginning of Luke survives. |
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We have noted the rejection of the Diatessaron by the early church in favour of the multiple traditions that have come down to us in the four canonical gospels. |
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The main sources of information regarding Jesus' life and teachings are the four canonical gospels, and to a lesser extent the Acts of the Apostles and writings of Paul. |
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