Differences in style, theological content, and familiarity with Greek between the Gospel of John, the epistles of John, and the Revelation are seen by some scholars as indicating three separate authors.

Where the Diatessaron records Gospel quotations from the Jewish Scriptures, the text appears to agree with that found in the Syriac Peshitta Old Testament rather than that found in the Greek Septuagint — as used by the original Gospel authors.

The Diatessaron is thought to have been available to Muhammad, and may have led to his faulty conclusion in the Qur ' an that the Christian Gospel is one text or one book alone, without reference to the canonical authors or New Testament corpus ; he calls this supposed text the Injil.

The Two-Source hypothesis proposes that the authors of Matthew and Luke drew on the Gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of sayings of Jesus known as " Q ".

The two-source hypothesis then proposes that the authors of Matthew and Luke drew on the Gospel of Mark as well as on Q.

For example, various sections of the Gospel accounts, such as the Massacre of the Innocents, portray Jesus ' life as fulfilling prophecy ; and in the view of some scholars, this could reflect the agenda of the account authors rather than historical events.

Some authors, such as Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Jerome identify specifically Matthew as the author of the Gospel of the Hebrews.

" I had always before treated the Gospel as though its authors had set down day by day events in the life of Jesus as they happened ," she said.

On the other hand, suggestions that the Egerton Gospel served as a source for the authors of Mark and / or John also lack conclusive evidence.

The bronze casting depicts the authors of the Gospels with their symbols: Matthew the angel representing the Gospel of the Church ; Mark, the lion and inspiration for Peter ’ s teachings or catechesis ; Luke, the ox, for his recounting of Christ ’ s infancy ; John, the eagle, for the writer of the Spiritual Gospel, recounting the story of " the Word made flesh.

In Christian tradition the Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament that bear the following titles:

The Gospel of Matthew may be the source of this difference ; however, there are clear examples in secular Hellenistic authors where sophrosyne refers to sexual fidelity and integrity ( at least for a woman ; cf.

* Four Evangelists, the authors of the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament

Nineteenth century New Testament scholars who rejected the traditional perspective of the priority of Matthew in favor of Marcan priority speculated that the authors of Matthew and Luke drew the material they have in common with the Gospel of Mark from that Gospel.

They are a common feature in larger Gospel Books from the earliest examples in the 7th century until the decline of that format for illustrated books in the High Middle Ages, by which time their conventions were being used for portraits of other authors.

In his 5th century Gospel harmony book Harmony of the Gospels Saint Augustine viewed the variations in the gospel accounts in terms of the different focuses of the authors on Jesus: Matthew on royalty, Mark on humanity, Luke on priesthood and John on divinity.

It is a people's theology, and, according to its authors, " a development of the political hermeneutics of the Gospel in terms of the Korean reality ".

Carnegie wrote " The Gospel of Wealth ", an article in which he stated his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

The traditional theory holds that John the Apostle — considered to have written the Gospel and the epistles of John — was exiled on Patmos in the Aegean archipelago during the reign of Domitian, and there wrote Revelation.

He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the Biblical text.

He wrote that Matthew composed the Gospel according to the Hebrews.

Biblical Scholars are in wide agreement that the author of the Gospel of Luke also wrote the Acts of the Apostles.

Robinson wrote that, where the Gospel narrative accounts can be checked for consistency with surviving material evidence, the account in the Gospel of John is commonly the more plausible ; that it is generally easier to reconcile the various synoptic accounts within John's narrative framework, than it is to explain John's narrative within the framework of any of the synoptics ; and that, where in the Gospel Jesus and his disciples are described as travelling around identifiable locations, the trips in question can always be plausibly followed on the ground, which he says is not the case for any synoptic Gospel.

Irenaeus wrote a number of books, but the most important that survives is the " Against Heresies ", normally referred to by its Latin title Adversus Haereses which is an important source regarding the Gospel according to the Hebrews.

Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke, was a physician who lived around AD 30 to 130 ( exact years are not known ), and he also wrote the Book of Acts in the Bible.

" Although Eusebius believed the Apostle wrote the Gospel and the epistles, it is likely that doubt about the fidelity of the author of 2 and 3 John was a factor in causing them to be disputed.

As John wrote his Gospel after these events, for a Gentile audience, he spoke generically of Jews, rather than specifying a group within Judaism that no longer existed and that would have been unfamiliar to his readers.

Certain lines of evidence suggest that John of Patmos wrote Revelation but neither the Gospel of John nor the Epistles of John.

John, one day, was going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, he then rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, " Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the Truth, is within .” He wrote three epistles while living in Ephesus, and he also completed the Gospel of John during this period.

He was later restored to faith by the apostle Peter ; he then became Peter ’ s interpreter, wrote the Gospel of Mark, founded the church of Africa, and became the bishop of Alexandria.

Mark the Evangelist wrote down the sermons of Peter, thus composing the Gospel according to Mark ( Eccl.

Tertullian ( AD 155 – 222 ) wrote in Adversus Judaeos that Britain had already received and accepted the Gospel in his lifetime, writing of:

" Saint Hilary of Poitiers ( AD 300 – 376 ) also wrote that the Apostles had built churches and that the Gospel had passed into Britain.

Didymus wrote many works: Commentaries on all the Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of John as Against the Arians, and On the Holy Spirit, which Jerome translated into Latin.

Irenaeus is also our earliest attestation that the Gospel of John was written by John the apostle, and that the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke, the companion of Paul.

The Matins service ( usually celebrated Thursday night ) is officially entitled, " The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ", and is commonly known as the " Matins of the Twelve Gospels ", because interspersed throughout the service are twelve Gospel readings which recount the entire Passion of Christ from the Last Supper to the sealing of the tomb.

: If any one will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life

# Closely linked to this is the repentance view, which is that Jesus intended for the precepts in his Sermon to be unattainable, and through our certain failure to live up to them, we will learn to repent or that we will be driven to faith in the Gospel.

After an ektenia ( litany ), during which petitions are offered that God will have mercy on those who err and bring them back to the truth, and that he will " make hatred, enmity, strife, vengeance, falsehood and all other abominations to cease, and cause true love to reign in our hearts …", the bishop ( or abbot ) says a prayer during which he beseeches God to: " look down now upon Thy Church, and behold how that, though we have joyously received the Gospel of salvation, we are but stony ground.

" he Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were charged with new significance.

* 1785-Joseph White's sermon titled " On the Duty of Attempting the Propagation of the Gospel among our Mahometan and Gentoo Subjects in India " is published in the second edition of his book Sermons Containing a View of Christianity and Mahometanism, in their History, their Evidence, and their Effects.

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, shorn of its mythological connections, is difficult to connect specifically to our gospel, but the Acts of Thomas contains the Hymn of the Pearl whose content is reflected in the Psalms of Thomas found in Manichaean literature.

By 1999 Burke had started his own record labels: GTR Records ( an abbreviation of Gospel Truth Recordings ) for gospel music projects, which was owned by his children, and was also " the mother label for The One, which is our secular label.

The full title of his principal work — a work which, though now out of date, entitles its author to be regarded as the founder of modern critical research in the field of early Christian literature — is The Credibility of the Gospel History ; or the Principal Facts of the New Testament confirmed by Passages of Ancient Authors, who were contemporary with our Saviour or his Apostles, or lived near their time.

The Gospel of mentions that Jesus of Nazereth considered the beginning exhortation of the Shema to be the first of his two greatest commandments: " The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel ; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

: Merciful God, creator of all the peoples of the earth and lover of souls: Have compassion on all who do not know you as you are revealed in your Son Jesus Christ ; let your Gospel be preached with grace and power to those who have not heard it ; turn the hearts of those who resist it ; and bring home to your fold those who have gone astray ; that there may be one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Julian Brown concludes that the three Latin manuscripts of John " seem to attest an early medieval practice of placing a complete Gospel of St. John in a shrine, as a protective amulet ; and it seems reasonable to conclude that our manuscript was placed in St. Cuthbert's coffin to protect it ".

* An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness ; or a True and Faithful Representation of the Everlasting Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1660.

" It is clear that the author assumed that the author of the Gospel of John was the same as the author of the First Epistle of John, for in the middle of discussing the Gospel of John he says " what marvel then is it that John brings forward these several things so constantly in his epistles also, saying in his own person, " What we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears, and our hands have handled that have we written ," ( 1 John 1: 1 ) which is a quotation from the First Epistle of John.

‘ Reformed Theology as set forth in the Westminster Confession of Faith & the Larger and Shorter Catechisms as adopted by the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, is the system of doctrine taught in Scripture, and therefore is to be learned, taught, and proclaimed for the edification and government of Christian people, for the propagation of the faith, and for the evangelization of the world by the power of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The CPBC, believing in the power of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus, shall be an organization committed to empower its members to fulfill Christ ’ s holistic mission to the whole world.

His full story can be found in his book, The Hole in our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us?