Day 269 - Saturday after the 17th Sunday after Pentecost
Read | Day 269 | Saturday | September 26 | Matthew 2: 1-12, 13-18, 19-23 Luke 2: 41-52 Mark 1: 2-8 Matthew 3: 1-12 Luke 3: 1-18 Mark 1: 9-11 Matthew 3: 13-17 Luke 3: 21-22 Background | Center for Biblical Studies | Luke | Along with Matthew , Luke’s Gospel draws upon the older Gospel of Mark for some of its material. There is also likely an even older tradition that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all were familiar with, not to mention various oral traditions. This theory best explains why there is so much overlap between these three Gospels while at the same time there are so many significant differences. Because these three Gospels overlap in wording and content as often as they do, they are called the “synoptic Gospels” (Greek, syn, together with; optic , seeing). John’s Gospel presents Jesus in a different way, and there is likely very little, if any, connection between John and the other thre...