2/14/06 Comparison of the Four Gospels
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Maravot's Synoptic Matrix

 

A comparison of the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke
plus the Gospel of John laid beside them

(previously published in 1993 as part of our Buckley Series  under the title of
"Of Epicureans, Stoics & other ways to find Good")

 

The order of the matrix emphasizes differences among the gospels and refers to identical verses merely by the notation of chapter and verse. Where you see a chapter and verse cited without the saying, etc., assume that it is identical to the verse in the left hand column which is mostly Matthew's Gospel.

The Matrix shows how Matthew embellished, as it were, Mark's gospel and Luke followed Matthew and Mark, noting differences in chronology and also correcting Matthew. In Matthew the man with the withered arm, for instance, Luke shows is a man whose right arm is withered. So Luke elaborates where he thought appropriate. I have high-lighted texts which Matthew should have been following in Mark but did not pick up from Mark; likewise do we see details in Luke which he omits though presumably following Matthew and Mark.

In the matrix we also see how Luke remembers two beatitude scenes as to Matthew's remembrance of the Sermon on the Mount (but we see also in Matthew a reminder by Jesus how he had fed the 5,000 and then the 4,000 with fishes and loaves).

 

 

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Jesus then went by ship to a desert

place; people followed on foot

disciples complained, "This is a

desert place; send them home to eat".

Jesus answered: how many loaves have

ye? Five and two fishes they answered

 

 

Fed 5,000; had 12 baskets left over

 

Then sent disciples into ship and sent

the multitude away

Went up a mountain to pray alone 'till

evening

 

But the ship now midst a tossing sea

in 4th watch Jesus walked to them

on the sea

 

 

Disciples afraid; thought him a spirit

"Be of good cheer; it is I"

Peter answered: Lord bid me to come

in the water to thee

Peter walked to him

When Peter & Jesus came to the ship

the wind ceased

Worshipped him: Thou art truely the

Son of God

 

Came to the land of Gennesaret (Lake

of Galilee)

 

 

 

Healed many; people wanted to touch

the hem of his garment

Scribes and pharisees from Jerusalem

came to him

 

 

 

 

They saw that his disciples did not

wash their hands before they ate

and complained about it

 

 

 

 

 

Jesus answered, why do you justify

being free by honoring not thy

mother & father?

Ye hypocrites: Esaias prophesied

this people draweth unto me with

their mouth, etc.

Called to the multitude: not that which

goeth into the mouth defileth

a man

Pharisees offended.

every plant which my Heavenly Father

hath not planted shall be rooted up

Leave them alone: let the blind

lead the blind

 

 

 

 

Peter said, declare unto us this

parable

Then Jesus went to Tyre & Sidon

On the way a woman cried, "Have

mercy on me, Son of David"

Her daughter was vexed with a devil

Jesus did not answer her. Said

I am sent unto the lost sheep of

Israel

Woman begged: you toss crumbs to

dogs

Jesus went back to Sea of Galilee

 

 

 

Multitudes followed; Jesus healed

many; were with him 3 days

Fed multitude with seven loaves &

a few fishes; 4,000 people

Sent multitudes away & took ship &

came to Magdala

Pharisees & Saduccess came and

tempted him; asked him for a sign

from Heaven

Can discern the face of the sky etc.

Parable of the Sign of Jonas

 

Separated to the other side of the lake

 

Beware of leaven of the Pharisees and

Saduccees

 

 

Reasoned because we have no bread

 

Reminded them of the two feedngs:

5,000 & 4,000

Went to Bethsaida & healed blind man

with spit

Jesus came to coasts of Caesarea-

Philippi

Whom do men say the Son of Man is?

 

 

 

Some say John the Baptist; Elias;

others say you are Jeremias or one

of the prophets raised up again

 

Simon Petter said, Thou art the Christ

the Son of the Living God

 

Thou Peter..upon this rock I will

build my church..and give thee

the Keys to the Kingdom..whatosever

thou shalt loose on earth shall be

loosed in heaven; whatsoever thou

shalt bind on earth shall be bound

in heaven

From then on he began talking about

going to Jerusalem to suffer & be

raised the third day.

 

 

Peter rebuked him on these things

Anyone who follows me let him take

up his cross

"Whosoever shall save his life shall

lose it"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14.13

 

14.15

 

14.17

 

 

 

14.19

 

14.22

 

14.23

 

 

14.24

14.25

 

 

 

14.26

14.27

14.28

 

14.29

14.32

 

14.33

 

 

14.34

 

 

 

 

14.36

 

15.1

 

 

 

 

 

15.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.3

 

 

 

 

 

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15.12

15.13

 

15.14

 

 

 

 

 

15.15

 

15.21

 

 

15.22

15.24

 

 

15.25

 

15.29

 

 

 

15.30

 

15.33

 

15.39

 

16.1

 

 

16.3

16.4

 

16.4

 

16.6

 

 

 

16.7 ff

 

16.9

 

 

 

16.13

 

16.13

 

 

 

16.14

 

 

 

16.18

 

 

16.16

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.21

 

 

 

 

16.22

16.24

 

16.25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.33 People came from

all cities on foot

6.35

 

6.37 Give them to eat;

shall we buy 2 hundred penny weight of bread?

How many loaves have ye? Five & two fishes

6.39 ibid; grass green; sat

ranks of hundreds & 50's

6.45

 

6.46 when evening came the ship was in the midst

of the sea and he was alone on land

6.46

6.48 He saw them toiling

& rowing and on 4th watch etc. He would have passed them by.

 

6.49

6.50

 

 

 

6.51 Wind ceased when

Jesus came to the ship

6.52 They considered not

the miracle of the loaves;

hearts were hardened

6.53

 

 

 

 

6.56

 

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7.18 He entered into the

house from the people

then questioned again on

the parables by disciples.

 

 

7.24 ibid; hid in a house

7.25 ibid; woman was a

Greek, a Syrophonician

 

 

 

 

7.27..and daughter cured

 

7.31 ibid; via Decapolis

Healed deaf and dumb

man

 

 

 

8.5 ibid; 7 baskets left

over

8.10 ibid; & came to

Dalmanutha

8.11

 

 

 

8.12 No sign shall be

given this generation

8.13 Left by ship to other

side-see Luke's details

8.15 ibid; and beware of

the leaven of Herod

 

 

8.16 reasoned because

we have no bread

8.19

 

8.22

 

8.27 Went to the towns

of Caesarea & Philippi

8.27

 

 

 

8.28 and they answered,

John the Baptist, Elias;

others said he is one of

the prophets raised up

8.29 Peter answered,

Thou art the Christ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.31 ibid; does not

mention Jerusalem

 

 

 

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8.34

 

8.34 "Whosoever shall

lose their life for my sake

or the gospel's same

same shall save it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.13 Give ye them to eat.

Answer: we have no more

than 5 loaves & two fishes

 

9.14 ibid; sat down in

ranks of 50's.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.1 (after he went into a

desert place) And it came

to pass, that the people

pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the land of Gennesaret.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.37 As he spake a certain

pharisee besought him to

dine with him.

11.38...he marvelled that

he had not first washed

before dinner.

 

 

 

 

11.39 Lord said, "now do

ye pharisees make clean the

outside of the cup but your

inward part is full of

ravening & wickedness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.14 and he was casting out a devil and it was dumb; some say he casteth out devils by Beezelbub (see above also)

 

 

 

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11.16..and others tempting

him sought of him a sign

from heaven

 

11.19 There shall be no sign given it but the sign of Jonas the prophet

 

 

12.1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together a multitude, etc. said, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.18 and it came to pass,

as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, Whom do people say I am?

 

9.19 They answering said

John the Baptist, but some

say Elias; and others say that one of the old prophets is risen again.

9.20 turning to Peter he asked, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.22 Saying, the Son of Man must suffer many things & be rejected of the elders & chief priests and

 

scribes and slain and be

raised the 3rd day.

9.23 Let him take up his

cross & follow me.

 

 

9.24 Whosoever will save

his life will lose it

5.25 Verily, verily, I say unto you the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

 

6.28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice.

 

5.29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

 

5.39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: & they are they which testify of me.

 

5.46 For had ye believed Moses ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

 

5.47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

 

6.1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

6.2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

6.3 And Jesus went up into a mountain and there he sat with his disciples.

6.4 and the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

6.5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great compnay come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?

6.7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them...

6.8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,

6.9 There is a lad here, which hath five barely loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

6.21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

6.41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

6.47 Verily, verily, I say unot you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

6.48 I am that bread of life.

6.49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

6.50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

6.51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any men eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread I will live is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

6.54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

 

 

 

 

6.59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernum

6.65 And he said, Therefore siad I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my father.

6.66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

6.67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

6.68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

6.68 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

7.1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

7.2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.

7.3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.

7.4 For there is no man that doeth anything in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

7.5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

7.6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but yur time is always ready.

7.7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, tht the works thereof are evil.

7.14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

7.15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

7.16 Jesus answered them, and said My doctrine is not mine but his that sent me.

7.17 If any man do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

7.19 Did not Moses give you the law and yet none of you keepeth the Law. Why go ye about to kill me?

7.20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?

7.23 If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man whole on the Sabbath day?

9.1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from birth.

9.3 Jesus answered, neither

hath this man sinned, nor his

parents: but that the works

of God should be made

manifest in him

9.4 I must work the works

of Him that sent me, while it

is day: the night cometh,

when no man can work.

9.5 As long as I am in the

world, I am the light of the

world.

9.6 When he had thus

spoken, he spat on the

ground, and made clay of the

spittle, and he anointed the

eyes of the blind man with

the clay.

 

 9.7 And said unto him, Go,

wash in the pool of Siloam

(which is by interpretation,

Sent.) he went his way

therefore, and washed, and

came forth seeing.

9.14 And it was the Sabbath

day when Jesus made the

clay, and opened his eyes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.16 Therefore said some of

the Pharisees, This man is

not of God because he

keepeth not the sabbath

 

 

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