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The Gospels:. Central Sources for Understanding Jesus Chapter 2 p.24. Gospels are Faith Sources. How do we read them? Are they factual accounts? Are the authors unreliable because they were “believers”?. ALL HISTORY IS PRESENTED THROUGH THE EYES AND EARS OF THE PERSON DOING THE RECORDING. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Gospels:Central Sources for Understanding Jesus
Chapter 2 p.24
How do we read them?
Are they factual accounts?Are the authors unreliable because they were
“believers”?
Gospels are Faith Sources
“ History is written by the victors”
ALL HISTORY IS PRESENTED THROUGH THE EYES AND EARS OF THE PERSON DOING THE RECORDING
The Good News!
The Daily News
Shaped by culture
Gospels
Language, geography, technology, history and religious tradition
The Good News!
Authors used exaggeration, figures of speech, approximation and poetry
Luke: 14, 26
If any one comes to me without hating his father* and mother, wife and children,
brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
The Good News!
Biography 101
Jesus’ birthday What he looked like Where he went to school His teenage years What was on his ipod
Helllloooooooooo… where is the info on……..
Gospel=godspell
Godspell=good news, glad tidings Glad tidings=Greek word, evangelion Evangelion=the proclamation or
announcement of good news How about dem’Evangelists????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtaAi5TGle0
Stage 1: Jesus of Nazareth and His DisciplesBasic Facts of Jesus Life p. 31Born CarpenterPublic career speaking and preachingConsidered by many as prophet, maybe a magician,
sorcerer
Development of the Gospels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTRxXvQY0s&feature=player_detailpage
The world is changed forever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTgx_pj6m8
THE RESURRECTION
Jesus is Lord…Jesus is Christ
Stage 2..First few years….
Then….
Easter….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyFiClAzq8
Disciples start thinking that the end is coming…..
Start spreading the news near and far…
Like
It’s the end of the world as they know it.
It is a story that we are looking backwards and understanding
Many layers Oral tradition
Intense mission to spread the news…
Now they start thinking as a “church” We better get our act together and write for
the future…this “oral tradition” is only going to get us so far.
We better get our act together and write this stuff down for the people who are listening to us NOW!!!!
Stage 3….about 40 years later
Time is Marching On..
Four Portraits of Jesus
4 different perspectives How is a picture different from a painting?
The 4 Gospels
Each evangelist had a wealth of material available to him..stories told over and over, the words of Jesus and insights of others..
The Gospels developed like a multi-layered drawing
Four Portraits..
Each had a particular audience in mind when writing
It is doubtful that any one person was responsible for the total development of any of the Gospels
There are scholars* (note the word..really smart people who study this stuff) who will disagree.
Each Gospel helps paint the portrait.
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER
First gospel written..35-40 years after
Written by???..John Mark a companion of St.Paul
MARK’S Portrait:The Human Jesus
Written in Rome for the GENTILES (Non Jewish) readers.
Mark’s Gospel explained the Jewish customs to a audience that was not familiar with these practices.
Mark wrote for WHOM???...
A heavy sense of suffering dominates the Gospel of Mark
(the Christians are being persecuted for the burning of Rome)
Maybe Mark’s intention was to explain the that suffering was an essential part of being human.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktp_TTWC_iE
A long introduction into the Passion and death of Christ.
Why is this relevant to us?
Jesus was moved with "compassion" (Mk 6:34);
He "sighed" (Mk 7:34; 8:12); he "marveled" at the unbelief of his own townsfolk (Mk 6:6);
he "looked" upon the rich young man and "loved him" (Mk 10:21).
Mark also adds vivid details that the other gospel writers leave out. For example, he describes Jesus' tenderness as he took the little children "in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them" (Mk 10:16). ).
The human Jesus
Why is this relevant to us?
Fear Agony Hunger Betrayal Resting Liked creature comforts Distress Tempted LOVE YOUSELF 13:28-34..Yea Andrew
What makes Jesus human?
When did the chapter end? Verse 1-8 Scholars think that the Gospel ended at
verse 8… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndWHhw
uwfnM&feature=relmfu
1:23 Maybe Mark is saying “ Wait for Him” he
will be in Galilee? Is that important for us?
Chapter 16
Uneasiness at the ending… Scholars were writing manuscripts by hand. Often in Mark’s Gospel Jesus’ disciples
needed to be told about him. They were unsure..they did not understand
4:41(Read 4:35-41) 6:52 (read 6:45-52) 7:8-18 8:17-21
The longer ending..gives more instruction
The people closest to Jesus were the ones that needed to understand him.
The demons knew and the Roman centurion knew he was God. 1: 21 ---15:39
How is this relevant to us?
What do we make of all this?
JESUS as the
COMPASSIONATE Savior
LUKE p.42
1. Gospel 2. Acts of the Apostles
Often called Gospel of Jesus & Gospel of The Holy Spirit
Luke’s Gospel –2 Parts
A doctor?... We can guess…. a well educated GENTILE
who converted to Christianity. MORE IMPORTANTLY..
****Only NON JEW TO Write a Gospel****NOT an eyewitness, had to rely on
accounts of others.Less important but interesting
Who wrote It?
Less important but interesting..(I think so )
Probably wrote in Antioch, SyriaProbably used Mark’s Gospel as
Spark Notes
For Converted Christians to Better Understand Their Faith
To establish the continuity of Judiasm Central Role of the Holy Spirit 1:35—Angel tells Mary HS will come to her 1:41-Elizabeth will be filled with HS Stresses Jesus’ MERCY and Compassion
FOR WHOM…And WHY
http://www.realfaithtv.com/videos/compassion-to-love-like-jesus/
Jesus = compassionate
Pharisees Prostitute Dinner Washing of Feet Tears Hair Welcome
THE SINFUL WOMAN 7:36-50(who remembers from last year?)
Who Are We in the story??
The Lost Son Luke 15:11-32
http://vimeo.com/35595649
WWJD?????? Let’s Look
This guy is a jerkHis brother is doing all the work..for a long time…….AAGGGHHHH
Soooooo Difficult to understand
This is compassionate love
The parable of the lost sheep 15:3-7
More is recorded about Elizabeth and Mary than the other Gospels. 1:5-79….
the woman who anointed the feet of Jesus in the house of Simon the Pharisee.
More about women
LUKE PICTURES JESUS IN PRAYER MORE THAN ANY OTHER GOSPEL WRITER. AT EVERY MAJOR CRISIS, JESUS PRAYED.
PRAYER
For Whom?????? How can we tell?
Read the 1st chapter!!!!! YIKES
Gospel of Matthew
What do we know about the development of the gospel?
16:18 and 18:17
Most Popular Gospel
Strong sense of the “church”
Synoptic = “to see together”
MatthewMarkLuke
What about……..
SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
JOHN
JOHN
Highly Literary Symbolic http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=vWPyhsP1Nao
Different than MML
Let us read.. 1:1-18
Holy Moley
How does it begin?
I am the Light of the World 8:12 I am the bread of life 6:35 I am the vine 15:5 I am the good shepard 10:11 I am the resurrection and the life 11:25 I am the way, the truth and the life 14:6
I am sayings..
John 3:16 No bread and wine mentioned at the last
supper!!!!
Information to dazzle your friends with..
Rivers of Living Water.* On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and exclaimed, “Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as scripture says:
‘Rivers of living water* will flow from within him.’”
Beautiful
“IT IS FINISHED” 19:30
NOW WHAT?