The Church and the Gospels of Matthew and Luke

The Church and the Gospels of Matthew and Luke The four authors that wrote about Jesus life and ministry tell the same story in different ways. There are many stories about Jesus and not any one of the apostles told everything that was wrote about Jesus and his life. Even the content about the same story had many different details. I have picked to gospel accounts about Jesus to compare. The two apostles that I picked will compare Luke and Matthew. They both wrote about the same event and they put different theological emphasis on the same action that Jesus did. The two accounts are considered true events in his life. A quick look at the gospels reveals they all address one issue which is Jesus and his ministry. In this, a great amount of overlap can be found in the gospels, more so among the synoptic. If all four gospels are about the ministry of Jesus, Why have all four apostles been wrote about the same event when it would only have taken one to do the same thing. Then why did they write about it and tell the same story in different ways. The question may be asked, why did they write the four gospels? I will look at the gospels of Matthew and Luke in order to look for similarities and differences in there writing. There are seventeen parables in Matthew and nineteen in Luke and of those there are six alike. There are twenty miracles in both Matthew and Luke and thirteen are about the same thing.[1] Both Matthew and Luke give details on Jesus’ infancy (Matthew 1:18 – 2:23; Luke 1:5 – 2:52); the preparatory ministry of John the Baptist (Matthew 3:1-12; Luke 3:1-20); the beginning of Jesus’ ministry (Matthew 3:13 – 4:1-11; Luke 3:21 – 4:15); Jesus’ ministry in Galilee (Matthew 4:13 – 19:1; Luke 4:16 – 9:62); and Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem, passion and ascension (Matthew 21-26; Luke 19-24). In these there is difference can be seen in the way they were written? For the most part, Luke gives more details and fluff in these accounts when

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