Gospels Assessment Essay

Gospels Assessment
Trishie Gilvray

The Gospel is a record of Christ’s life and teachings in the first four books of the New Testament. It is written up of 4 different accounts. The first being Mark which was written roughly around the years of A.D 55 to A.D 70. The second gospel written was by Matthew, this was written around the year A.D 80. The third book of the gospels is Luke, this was written also around the period of A.D 80 and lastly, the last gospel written is the Gospel of John which was written around A.D 100.

The gospel was developed in three stages. The first stage being the life and teachings of Jesus, which are traditions from Jesus’s words and deeds during his life, the second being the oral tradition or the preaching of
Jesus used parables to express how he felt and how he could get across a message to others using an example so people could understand easier as well as be able to link something into their lives and find other meanings in them. Jesus knew that not everybody would be able to understand or have a deeper understanding to his parables. Using parables, Jesus knew that these would make people think and for those who didn’t want to listen to the deeper meaning, it would be a story for them to learn and listen to and for those who wanted to feel more connected and be able to find meanings in Jesus stories that would guide them to become closer to God and to be able to learn in and understand what else Jesus had taught. Parables can be used to teach more than one thing at a time and depending on how much people wanted to learn, they could discover and learn many things that inspires and helps them in life and do what God would want them to do. Parables are also simple, they didn’t have a load of information that people would get bored of easily. They were quick, short stories that caught the interest of many people. The Good Samaritan is a very good example of this because it is a story that has spread worldwide and people use the words ‘Good Samaritan’ to describe people who do good things that didnt expect anything in return or had to do it. The
It shows us that we need to get over what someone did and instead help them. As Jesus says we should love our enemies, just like the Samaritan did for the injured Jew, and we should care for them. One day something might happen to them, and we could have easily helped, but we let our hate for them get in the way. For me this parable speaks a lot of meanings, that sometimes the people who think would help, won’t because they are scared of how others will see them and how their social acceptance will go down and that people will be ashamed of them. That sometime those who we think are our friends aren’t because they care too much of what others think which happens a lot in our society today. Sometimes people just need to stop and rethink what they did and instead overlook the bad things and focuses on making a change. The Parable of the good samaritan also relates a lot to racism, which has been a big issue in today's society and as we have grown up and sometimes there has been a separation between different coloured cultures. This parable shows that no matter who you are, where you come from or what culture you are there is always room for you to save someone and help someone. This parable shows that despite the color or religion difference, everyone is allowed to help. In a way this parable is telling us to