Bede's works included Commentary on Revelation, Commentary on the Catholic Epistles, Commentary on Acts, Reconsideration on the Books of Acts, On the Gospel of Mark, On the Gospel of Luke, and Homilies 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.

When Justin quotes the synoptic Gospels, he tends to do so in a harmonised form, and Helmut Koester and others conclude that Justin must have possessed a Greek harmony text of Matthew, Luke and Mark.

The Last Supper appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke ; and in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, while the last-named of these also indicates something of how early Christians celebrated what Paul the Apostle called the Lord's Supper.

The rate of exchange of 1: 60 implied in the Gospel of Barnabas was, however, a commonplace of late medieval interpretation of the counterpart passage in the canonical Gospels ( Mark 12: 42 ), arising from the standard medieval understanding of minuti as meaning ' a sixtieth part '.

The Gospels of Luke, Matthew and Mark ( known as the Synoptic Gospels ) include many of the same stories, often in the same sequence, and sometimes exactly the same wording.

In The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins ( 1924 ), Burnett Hillman Streeter argued that another source, referred to as L and also hypothetical, lies behind the material in Luke that has no parallel in Mark or Matthew.

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke were written independently, each using Mark and a second document called " Q " as a source.

Irenaeus asserted that four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were canonical scripture.

In the Synoptic Gospels ( Mark, Matthew, and Luke ), Jesus is baptized by John.

Therefore, according to Koester, it is likely that Justin applied the name " memoirs of the apostles " analogously to indicate the trustworthy recollections of the apostles found in the written record of the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and possibly also an apocryphal gospel.

Justin uses material from the Synoptic Gospels ( Matthew, Mark, and Luke ) in the composition of the First Apology and the Dialogue, either directly, as in the case of Matthew, or indirectly through the use of a gospel harmony, which may have been composed by Justin or his school.

It is probable that he personally translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ; and it is possible he translated the entire New Testament, while his associates translated the Old Testament.

At some point in the early 700s the famous illuminated manuscript known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, was made probably at Lindisfarne and the artist was possibly Eadfrith, who later became Bishop of Lindisfarne.

The woman's name is not given in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, but the event is likewise placed in Bethany, specifically at the home of one Simon the Leper, a man whose significance is not explained elsewhere in the gospels.

Jesus prophesies its total destruction in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but the fulfillment of that prophecy never appears anywhere in the New Testament.

A preterist discussion of the Tribulation has its focus on the Gospels, in particular the prophetic passages in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, the Olivet discourse, rather than on the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation.

The last meal that Jesus shared with his disciples is described in all four canonical Gospels, namely in Matthew 26: 17-30, Mark 14: 12-26, Luke 22: 7-39 and John 13: 1-17: 26.

A preterist discussion of the Tribulation has its focus on the Gospels, in particular the prophetic passages in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, rather than on the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation.

John probably knew and undoubtedly approved of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but these gospels spoke of Jesus primarily in the year following the imprisonment and death of John the Baptist.

According to the hypothesis of Markan priority, the Gospel of Mark was written first and then used as a source for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

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.

By the time the Gospels of Luke and Matthew were written, Jesus is portrayed as being the Son of God from the time of birth, and finally the Gospel of John portrays him as the pre-existent Word () as existing " in the beginning ".

According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary.

The birth narratives in both Luke and Matthew seem to be the latest component of the Gospels.

The Gospel of James, also known as the Infancy Gospel of James or the Protoevangelium of James, is an apocryphal Gospel probably written about AD 145, which expands backward in time the infancy stories contained the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and presents a narrative concerning the birth and upbringing of Mary herself.

The Gospels recall the teaching of John, that he called for Israel to purify herself through baptism ( Matthew 3: 1-12 ).

Literary expansion of the narratives of Jesus ' birth found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke began already in the 2nd century and the portrayal of the Nativity has continued in various art forms to this day.

Following the theme of Incarnation in the Gospels, the Christian artist and critic sees in the most commonplace and ordinary events `` figures '' of divine power and reality.

Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

The Arabic harmony preserves Tatian's sequence exactly, but uses a source text corrected in most places to that of the standard Syriac Peshitta Gospels ; the Persian harmony differs greatly in sequence, but translates a Syriac text that is rather closer to that in Ephrem's commentary.

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.

Although the Gospel of Matthew is considered to be the " most Jewish " of the Gospels, it contains one of the most anti-Jewish passages found in the New Testament.

After the Synod of Whitby in 664 Roman church practices officially replaced the Celtic ones but the influence of the Celtic style continued, the most famous examples of this being the Lindisfarne Gospels.

* The crucifixion of Jesus: Jesus of Nazareth's death by crucifixion by Pontius Pilate ( most likely in AD 30 or 33 ), recounted in the four first-century canonical Gospels, is referred to repeatedly as something well known in the earlier letters of Saint Paul, for instance, five times in his First Letter to the Corinthians, written in AD 57 ( 1: 13, 1: 18, 1: 23, 2: 2, 2: 8 ).

The Sermon is the longest piece of teaching from Jesus in the New Testament, and has been one of the most widely quoted elements of the Canonical Gospels.

The Sermon has been one of the most widely quoted elements of the Canonical Gospels.

The New Testament, written by various authors in varying qualities of Koine Greek hails from this period ( 1st to early 2nd century AD ), the most important works being the Gospels and the Epistles of Saint Paul.

These knots are most known for their adaptation for use in the ornamentation of Christian monuments and manuscripts, such as the 8th-century St. Teilo Gospels, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels.

The authors of the Gospels present Jesus as speaking harshly against some Pharisees ( Josephus does claim that the Pharisees were the " strictest " observers of the law, but he likely meant " most accurate ").

The Lindisfarne Gospels is the best documented and most complete Insular manuscript of the period ( Backhouse 2004 ).

According to Aldred ’ s colophon, the Lindisfarne Gospels were made in honour of God and Saint Cuthbert, a Bishop of the Lindisfarne monastery who was becoming “ Northern England ’ s most popular Saint ”.

According to Schonfield's analysis, the events of the Passover, which are presented in all the Gospels, but inconsistently, are most accurately presented in the Gospel of John.

Of the four Gospels, Philip figures most prominently in the Gospel of John.

In the Early Medieval period, the Celtic Christianity of Wales participated in the Insular art of the British Isles and a number of illuminated manuscripts possibly of Welsh origin survive, of which the 8th century Hereford Gospels and Lichfield Gospels are the most notable.

Apart from the poem Petra, Burgon's most notable works for which he is remembered today are The Revision Revised which was a critique of the then-new Revised Version of the Bible ( 1881 ), The Last Twelve Verses of Mark, The Traditional Text, and Causes of Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels.

There were difficulties with the Two Source Hypothesis, the most serious of which was that it could not account for all the material in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

Its most famous possession is the Canterbury Gospels, probably brought to England by St Augustine, when he was sent by Pope Gregory I to convert the people of Britain in 598AD.

Of treasure bindings from this period, only the lower cover of the Lindau Gospels ( 750 – 800, Morgan Library ) now survives complete, though there are several references to them, most famously to that of the Book of Kells, which was lost after a theft in 1007.