Day 268 - Friday after the 17th Sunday in Pentecost
Read | Day 268 | Friday | September 25 | Luke 1: 39-45, 46-56, 57-66, 67-80 Matthew 1: 18-25 Luke 2: 1-7, 8-20, 21-24, 25-35, 36-40 Background | Center for Biblical Studies | Matthew | Matthew is the first Gospel in the New Testament, but it was not the first Gospel written. New Testament scholars understand that Mark’s Gospel is older, and Matthew’s Gospel uses some of Mark’s material for writing his account of Jesus’ life; Luke’s Gospel uses Mark as well. 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 w...