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Thematic Essay On The Book Of Jesus

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There is only one Jesus. The bible tells of three different accounts of his life. The four gospels are each telling the same story but from a different point of view. Each story is also speaking to different audiences. The authors of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all tell us the same rudimentary story about the life of Christ. Yet, while one writer might pick to highlight the parables of Jesus, another writer might skip over the parables and reside on the nature and personality of our Lord. Putting all four gospel books together gives us a more complete and better-off portrayal of the life and effort of Jesus the Messiah. The book of Matthew is the first of the synoptic gospels and it was written to disclose the Lord Jesus as the Savior, the King of the Jews, from the line of David. It also was written to persuade the Jews that Jesus Christ was undeniably their lengthy anticipated Messiah. The beginning chapters of Matthew portray the birth of Jesus. An angel came to Joseph and said “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus because he …show more content…

It was written so that all might trust in Jesus Christ the Son of God who offers everlasting life. John’s gospel uses the word “Believe” ninety eight times and the word “Life” thirty-six times, in an effort to implant the significance that it is essential that one must believe in order to live eternally. John is not one of the three synoptic gospels, but in its place was written with a more scriptural material, yet correspondingly as enthused and important as the primary three gospels. Not everything Jesus did was recorded in the bible. “And there are many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written” (Bible, John

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