WHAT SCHOLARS THINK THEY KNOW ABOUT THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
June 10, 2009 by Sophie
Filed under Gospel of John, Recent Posts
Many textual critics of the Bible devalue the Gospel of John as opposed to the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) as it relates to the “Historical Jesus”.  According to the critics, there are two pictures of Jesus painted by John’s Gospel and the synoptics, and these two pictures cannot both be historically accurate. For example, in the synoptics, Jesus speaks in “brief, pithy one-liners and couplets, and in parables”... Read more