His experience there was turned into two books: Records of a School and Conversations with Children on the Gospels.

While the Gospels of Mark and Matthew begin by calling Jesus both Christ and the Son of God, these are two distinct attributions.

Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus on the Euphrates in upper Syria in 423, suspecting Tatian of having been a heretic, sought out and found more than two hundred copies of the Diatessaron, which he " collected and put away, and introduced instead of them the Gospels of the four evangelists ".

It comprises two main divisions: the first is the Liturgy of the Catechumens which consists of introductory litanies, antiphons and scripture readings, culminating in a reading from one of the Gospels and, often, a homily ; the second is the Liturgy of the Faithful in which the Eucharist is offered, consecrated, and received as Holy Communion.

The Christian Gospels state that Jesus passed through Jericho where he healed one or two blind beggars and inspired a local chief tax-collector named Zacchaeus to repent of his dishonest practices.

Of the two genealogies of Jesus given in the Gospels, Matthew mentions Solomon, but Luke does not.

After he was elevated as pope, he presented to the church a copy of the Gospels bound with plates of gold and adorned with jewels, as well as an altar-cover and two chased silver-gilt ampullae for use at Mass.

Jesus ' birthday is unknown, but Biblical literalists, based on two Gospels, claim it was in or around April.

* Proclaiming and Hearing the Word: Usually two to three readings of Scripture, one of which is always from the Gospels, plus a psalm ( or portion thereof ) or canticle between the lessons.

Markan priority is the hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was the first written of the three Synoptic Gospels, and that the two other synoptic evangelists, Matthew and Luke, used Mark's Gospel as one of their sources.

The accounts of the birth and Nativity of Jesus appear in only two of the four Canonical Gospels, the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew.

According to the Gospels, two thieves are also crucified, one on each side of him.

He also made use of his narrating skills on two rock albums by Rick Wakeman called Cost of Living and The Gospels ( 1987 ).

The Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta was forbidden by the Holy Office under Pope John XXIII in 1959, a condemnation upheld in Cardinal Ratzinger's above-mentioned 1985 letter, almost two decades after the abolition of the Index ; but in 2001 Catholic Bishop Roman Danylak, by then a canon of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and no longer in charge of an eparchy, granted, in his own words, " a letter of commendation, a Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur and a testimonial to this website of a Catholic monk on the writings of Maria Valtorta " ( the website in question being one with the title "— A Contemporary Mystic — acclaimed one of the greatest: Maria Valtorta and her masterwork: The Poem of the Man-God " and in another letter stated that The Poem of the Man-God is, with the other writings of Valtorta, " in perfect consonance with the canonical Gospels, with the traditions and magisterium of the Catholic Church ".

Only one Greek Uncial manuscript is considered to transmit a Western text for the four Gospels and the Book of Acts – the fifth century Codex Bezae ; while the sixth century Codex Claromontanus is considered to transmit a Western text for the letters of Saint Paul, and is followed in this by two ninth century Uncials: F and G. Many " Western " readings are also found in the Old Syriac translations of the Gospels, the Sinaitic and the Curetonian, though opinions vary as to whether these versions can be considered witnesses to the Western text-type.

However, two hands have been identified: one hand in the Gospels of Matthew and John and another in the Gospels of Mark and Luke.

To date it is one of four early non-canonical narrative gospels, which exist only in fragmentary form: this Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, and the two very fragmentary Oxyrhynchus Gospels ( P. Oxy.

The accounts of the Nativity of Jesus in the New Testament appear in only two of the four Canonical Gospels, namely the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew.

In the lists of the twelve apostles in the synoptic Gospels, there are two apostles called James, who are differentiated there by their fathers: James, son of Zebedee, and James, son of Alphaeus.

In the list of the disciples found in the Gospels, two disciples named James are mentioned in the list of the twelve disciples:

The term ἐκκλησία appears in only two verses of the Gospels, in both cases in the Gospel of Matthew.

According to the earlier of the two accounts of the event that survive, known as " Miracles 18 – 20 " or the " anonymous account ", written by a monk of the cathedral, when the monks opened the decorated inner coffin, which was for the first time in living memory, they saw a " a book of the Gospels lying at the head of the board ", that is on the shelf or inner lid.

The canonical Gospels name four brothers, James, Joseph ( Joses ), Judas and Simon, but only James is known to history, though some associate Simeon of Jerusalem with Simon the brother of Jesus.

The " brothers " and " sisters " of Jesus mentioned in the Gospels, and the " James, the Lord's brother ", mentioned in, " the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James ", mentioned by Josephus were thus interpreted by some texts as not being children of Mary.

This verse introduces two of Jesus ' most important followers the brothers Simon and Andrew, both of these figures play an important role in the Gospels and are given prominent roles by almost all Christian churches.

The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic document in the New Testament canon, though there are short apocalyptic passages in various places in the Gospels and the Epistles.

For example, both works are soteriological and possess a high Christology, stressing Jesus ' divine nature as opposed to the human nature stressed by the Synoptic Gospels.

The lessons read at the third nocturn are patristic homilies on the Gospels, and together form a rough summary of theological instruction.

Explicit claims of Jesus being the Messiah are found in the Canonical Gospels in the Confession of Peter ( e. g. ) and the words of Jesus before his judges in the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus.

#" In parallel passages, whether of the New or Old Testament, especially in the Synoptic Gospels, which ancient copyists continually brought into increased accordance, those testimonies are preferable, in which precise accordance of such parallel passages is not found ; unless, indeed, there are important reasons to the contrary.

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk ( 1886 ), Philomythus ( 1891 ), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman ( 1892 ), and his article " The Gospels " in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world.

Among the most important are a controversial treatise on the Catholic Faith, in which are refuted what he saw as the principal errors of the Chinese ; The True Origin of All Things ; and The Life of God, the Saviour, from the Four Gospels.

These are sufficiently numerous to challenge the theory that the Gospel of John was the last to be written among the four Gospels and that it shows marked non-Jewish influence.

Justin Martyr ( c. 155 ) in 1 Apology 66 wrote: "... the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels ".

The first three Gospels of the New Testament are mainly an account of Jesus ' public ministry in this province, particularly in the towns of Nazareth and Capernaum.

In the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican Palace, allegories and historical scenes are mixed together, and the Raphael Cartoons show scenes from the Gospels, all in the Grand Manner that from the High Renaissance became associated with, and often expected in, history painting.

In Book III Irenaeus purports to show that these doctrines are false, by providing counter-evidence gleaned from the Gospels.

These passages are applied to John in the Synoptic Gospels.

The Bahá ' í writings also expand upon the scarce references to her life in the canonical Gospels, with a wide array of extra-canonical stories about her and sayings which are not recorded in any other extant historical sources.

There are several people named Mary in the Gospels.

" The Early medieval Codex Argenteus and Codex Vercellensis, the Stockholm Codex Aureus and the Codex Brixianus give a range of luxuriously produced manuscripts all on purple vellum, in imitation of Byzantine examples, like the Rossano Gospels, Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, which at least at one time are believed to have been reserved for Imperial commissions.

Although no single Gospel gives an inclusive or definitive account of the resurrection of Jesus or his appearances, there are four points at which all four Gospels converge:

Dunn has stated that, while the apostle Paul's resurrection experience was " visionary in character " and " non-physical, non-material ", the accounts in the Gospels are very different.

The books of the New Testament are arranged in this order: the four Gospels, the epistles of Paul ( Hebrews follows 2 Thess.

* 1057 – The Ostromir Gospels of Novgorod are written.