You won’t find me teaching the Bible very often without my Gospel Synopsis. Here’s an online version of the Gospel parallels. This stuff is pretty cool. You can do some great Bible studies with this, BUT people have to decide what they are going to do with the differing Gospel accounts. If you are bound and determined to not see the Gospels as literary creations, leave this sort of thing alone. It will give you a headache.

Today, after we read John 18 and 19 in Bible Study, Denise kept listing all the differences between John and Synoptics. Like did he talk nonstop or have nothing to say? Of course, you can resolve this sort of thing- or….you can get out your Old Testament and see what the silence means, or you can read John and see that Jesus is so unquestionably God standing in front of Pilate that the whole trial is a testimony to his divintiy. IOW- the Gospels WORK. They present Jesus; who he is and what he means. Resolving details is fine….but you can leave some of those details and enjoy the portraits as they are.