REL 2029 Chapter : Gospels
Document Summary
Accounts of jesus matthew, mark, luke, john. Thought that gospels not written by these figures, but others attribute work to them to align with school of thought or other reason: 1st gospel: mark. Begins with jesus, as adult, going to see john the baptist. Jesus gets baptized, goes into the desert for 40 days and wrestles with satan, the adversary. After this, returns to civilization and begins act of ministry. Preaches about the kingdom of god rule of god, internal experience. As he travels preaching, performs miraculous events: violation of sabbath, leads group picking grain on sabbath. Jesus rebukes, says man created for sabbath, not the. Pharisees set in plan to remove jesus: jesus selects 12 apostles from among followers to serve in inner circle to receive special teachings, jerusalem jesus declares coming of king of line of david. Jesus refuses to deny being king of jews.
