The Four Gospels

MATTHEW

Jesus the Messiah

OTprophecies

27:37“Jesus, king of the Jews”

MARK

Jesus the suffering servant

action-packed

10:45“came to serve & give his life”

Jesus the Son of God

7 “I am’s” 7 signs

20:31“believe… and have life in his name”

Jesus the perfect man

to Gentiles

19:10“to seek & save what was lost”

LUKE JOHN

John:the beloved disciple

father Zebedee, mother Salome

James son of Zebedee and his brother John Mark 3:17

Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

Matthew 27:56 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James

the younger and of Joses, and Salome. Mark 15:40

called to follow Jesus

“When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets.

Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.”

Mark 1

“sons of thunder”

(to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder)

Mark 3:17

“he’s not one of us”

“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”

Mark 9

nuke the Samaritans

… a Samaritan village… the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?”

Luke 9

asks for special favors

She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”

“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”

“We can,” they answered. Matthew 20

the inner circle

raising of Jairus’ daughter Mark 5

the Transfiguration Mark 9

Gethsemane Mark 14

present at Jesus’ trial & cross

“When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home…”

John 19

Resurrection day

Eugene Burnand, 1898

healing – prison – release

… a man crippled from birth … jumped to his feet and began to walk…

They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.

Acts 3-4

new converts in Samaria

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Acts 8

brother James martyred

It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.

Acts 12

the Gnostic-hunter

John said, “Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.”

Polycarp, 2nd-century

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched…”

1 John 1:1

sees the glorified Christ

“His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.”

Revelation 1

lessons from John’s life

1. Prolonged exposure to Jesus tends to change people.

bearing a resemblance

When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.

Acts 4:13

“Little children, love one another.” old John in Ephesus

lessons from John’s life

1. Prolonged exposure to Jesus tends to change people.

2. We are born with a hole in our hearts that only God’s love can fill.

the beloved

“One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved…”

John 13:23 John 20:2 John 21:7

John 21:20

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