Sentences with phrase «synoptic writers»

At this point, John supplies two details that the synoptic writers miss.

He uses similar language here that the synoptic writers report he used when he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane that this cup might pass from him, but not his will but God's will be done (Matt.

Luke makes less of repentance as the basis or baptism than do the other two synoptic writers; in fact, the word «baptism» occurs only twice in Luke's third chapter, and is not even included in this Sunday's reading.

Luke makes less of repentance as the basis or baptism than do the other two synoptic writers; in fact, the word «baptism» occurs only twice in Luke's third chapter, and is not even included in this Sunday's...

Not exact matches

Because of the common material in the first three gospels and because the writers look at Jesus from the same point of view, these gospels are known as the «synoptic» gospels.

He is the most skillful writer among the authors of the synoptics, and the most responsible historian of the three.

These are but a few illustrations of a characteristic ardent, vivid quality in Jesus» teaching which no reader of the Synoptic Gospels can miss, and, we might add, which no writer of the Synoptic Gospels could have invented.

It becomes apparent that many of the details in the synoptic accounts are paralleled in the Hellenistic literature; that Christian writers did use Hellenistic models can be seen quite clearly in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, where the author improves on a version of a story similar to that told by Philostratus.

Probably he also expected the kingdom to come in something like the way envisaged by the Synoptic evangelists and other New Testament writers.

here's a baffling question... if it's good theology to believe that Paul was chosen after the others for a reason, then why is he the earliest NT writer... what wd be the purpose of all that seemingly more primitive understanding of the gospel (the synoptics) coming together as written traditions after the Pauline high water mark?

The Epistle of James is a book that has been held by some to be not a Christian book at all, but a Jewish tract modified at one or two points to make it appear Christian.66 By another it is said to come closer to the Synoptic gospels in its type of thought than any other of the early writers.