Presentation of the Four Gospels

This study path provides an essential starting point for anyone wishing to begin reading the Gospel texts. It lays the foundations needed to understand the four accounts of Jesus' life by examining their origins, structure, and the distinctive intentions of each author.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each wrote for a different audience, with their own style and theology. This introduction helps readers grasp these distinctive features before exploring the accounts in detail, showing both what distinguishes these texts and what unites them around the same central figure.

This study path also prepares readers for synoptic reading, that is, placing the Gospels side by side, an approach central to many studies offered on this site. Understanding the four Gospels in their individuality helps us better appreciate the richness and depth of their combined testimony to Jesus' life and teaching.

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PER001 Why and how did Luke write his Gospel?
This article details Luke’s reasons and method for writing his Gospel, highlighting his careful, historical approach to compiling reliable accounts of the life of Jesus.

Luke 1.1-4 (King James Version) :
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
King James Version (1769), domaine public — texte : eBible.org

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Supplementary material
- ANN001 The Gospel of Luke
  The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles form a two-volume work devoted to the origins of Christianity. Luke was not a witness…