Continued Use Of Farrer's Hypothesis

The Gospel of John and its Correlation to the Synoptic gospels with the Continued Use of Farrer’s Hypothesis

With the discovery of similarities between the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, it can be seen that these synoptic gospels are constantly utilizing one another in order to better relay the story of Jesus. This evidence continues to become even more prominent as a deeper analyzation of each one progresses. With this in mind, I will be focusing on the gospel of John and its relation to the other gospels and how it goes on to further increase to credibility that the Farrer hypothesis may hold. With the use of the earliest synoptic text of Mark, it becomes easier to identify distinct differences between these historical accounts
which makes the inclusion of his gospel very confusing, but what if this was the author’s initial intention? The gospel’s possession of no chronological order of events is what makes his story seem odd. It is easy to identify similar themes within the other texts. In section 86 of the “Gospel Parallels, Matthew, Mark and Luke have been all addressing Blasphemy against the holy spirt and what it means for the Kingdom of god. Mark states that “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.” Now it goes on something along the lines the following in Matthew 12:25-26 and Luke 11:17-18. This elaborates on the fact that the kingdom of god must never been broken, that believers in god must continue to believe because if you do not believe then we cannot survive. Within John there is this almost separation from story and himself while the authors of Matthew, Mark, and Luke have all essentially been a part of Jesus’s life. Throughout John, Jesus is presented as this unworldly entity, has this excessive divineness that make him untouchable, and there is only one reason for him to be depicted as such by John, the author John wants to focus more on actions of and or against Jesus as opposed ideals that Jesus himself abides by. With
Although the way he chose to identify the theme within his gospel in a way that they others did not, the idea of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and how it is looked upon as a sin greater then then any other, it still possesses a similar connotation. Which how the gospel of John should be viewed as an entity. The author wants to convey Jesus, his teaching, his life, and beliefs in an unconventional and underrepresented way. It gives the audience a complete different way to view the bible in why that Mark, Matthew and Luke do