Sentences with phrase «synoptic gospels contain»

For instance, it is obvious that many of the sayings of Jesus as reported in the synoptic gospels contain parallelism, a feature also characteristic of much of the poetic language of the Old Testament.

All three synoptic gospels contain this incident from the public ministry of Our Lord, but each with a slightly different emphasis.

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In addition to these gospels, scholars have discovered a second - century papyrus which contains episodes in the life of Jesus and some sayings ascribed to him; these materials seem to be based on John and the synoptics, along with some extraneous legends.

Others are willing to grant that the Fourth Gospel contains some later interpretative matter, but insist that the Synoptic Gospels are quite purely «historical.»

The major source, the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), contains a great deal of teaching material ascribed to Jesus, and it turns out to be precisely that: teaching ascribed to Jesus and yet, in fact, stemming from the early Church.

The second edition, revised and enlarged, of the late C. G. Montefiore's Synoptic Gospels (1927) contains in Volume I a full - length commentary on the Gospel of Mark from a liberal Jewish point of view.

My own Form Criticism: A New Method of New Testament Research (1934) contains a translation of «The Study of the Synoptic Gospels» by Rudolf Bultmann and of «Primitive Christianity in the Light of Gospel Research» by Karl Kundsin, two excellent little works introductory to the subject.