Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

Tatian combined the four gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — into a single narrative.

The four gospels differ from one another ; like other harmonies, the Diatessaron resolves contradictions.

The final work is about 72 % the length of the four gospels put together ( McFall, 1994 ).

The Diatessaron is notable evidence for the authority already enjoyed by the four gospels by the mid-2nd century.

Twenty years after Tatian's harmony, Irenaeus expressly proclaimed the authoritative character of the four gospels.

The Diatessaron became a standard text of the gospels in some Syriac-speaking churches down to the 5th century, when it gave way to the four separate Gospels, in the Peshitta version.

Thus the harmonisation was replaced in the 5th century by the canonical four gospels individually, in the Peshitta version, whose Syriac text nevertheless contains many Diatessaronic readings.

Marcion rejected three of the four Canonical gospels, constructing a canon consisting of only of a redacted Gospel of Luke which he called the Gospel of the Lord, and ten of the Pauline epistles.

Barnabas is about the same length as the four Canonical gospels put together ( the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters, compared with 16 in Mark ), with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus ' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels.

Other students have noted a range of textual similarities between passages in the Gospel of Barnabas, and variously the texts of a series of late medieval vernacular harmonies of the four canonical gospels ( in Middle English and Middle Dutch, but especially in Middle Italian ); which are all speculated as deriving from a lost Vetus Latina version of the Diatessaron of Tatian.

In consequence, no reliance can be placed on any text in the Christian tradition ( including the four canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament ) as truly representing the teachings of Jesus.

The Gospel According to Matthew (, to euangelion kata Matthaion ) ( Gospel of Matthew or simply Matthew ) is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament.

The events of Jesus ' last week occupy a third of the content of all four gospels.

Current scholarship, however, emphasizes that all four gospels are both biographical and theological.

The most widely-known examples are the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Christianity traditionally places a high value on the four canonical gospels, which it considers to be a revelation from God and central to its belief system.

Christians teach that the four canonical gospels are an “ accurate and authoritative ” representation of the life of Jesus.

The authors of the four canonical Christian gospels are known as the four evangelists.

Irenaeus is the earliest witness to recognition of the canonical character of all four gospels.

Based on the arguments Irenaeus made in support of only four authentic gospels, some interpreters deduce that the fourfold Gospel must have still been a novelty in Irenaeus ' time.

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On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

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