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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What man askes for bread is given a

stone; or a fish, a serpent?

 

 

If ye be evil and give good gifts to

your children...

 

 

 

 

All things whatsoever ye would

that men do to you do to them;

for this is the law & the prophets

Enter at the straight gate

 

Beware of false prophets..who are

ravening wolves

Know men by their fruits..every

tree that bringeth forth not good

fruit is hewn down

Not every one that saith Lord,

Lord shall enter the Kingdom..

Depart from me ye that work

iniquity

Parable of a house on a rock

Taught as one having authority &

not as the scribes--saying ended

Returned to Capernaum after sermon

Healed Centurion's servant

Taught, "And many shall come & sit

down with Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob

in the Kingdom of heaven"

Came to Nain & raised a dead man

A great prophet has risen up among

us and God hath visited his people

Rumor of him went forth throughout

all of Judeae

Taught in synagogue & astonished

everyone; taught as one that had

authority

Man with unclean spirit, saying,

"Thou art the Holy One of God"

Fame spread throughout Galilee

When Jesus was come into Peter's

house (after Sermon & Centurion)

Healed Simon's wife and others

Devils came out of man: "Thou art

Christ the Son of God"

Fulfilled prophesy of Isaias: Took

our infirmities & bare our sicknesses

Healed leper (after Sermon on Mt.)

Again entered Capernaum after some

days

Multitudes followed him:

complained foxes have holes, etc.

A man wanted to follow Jesus: "suffer

me to first bury my father"

Jesus: "Let the dead bury the dead

Then entered a ship

 

 

 

Storm came up & he rebuked the sea

Came to the country of the Gergegenes

 

Two possessed of devils cured

 

Said, "what have we to do with thou,

Jesus, thou Son of God?"

 

Name is Legion; infected herd of

swine

Published great things Jesus did for

him in Decapolis

 

Went by ship to his own country

 

Taught in a synogogue

ruler of synagogue, Jarius, comes

to him because daughter is dying

On the way to his house meets woman

with issue of blood

Who touched me? Then he healed her

While he spake the ruler came out

of his house: "My daugher ids dead"

Peter, James & John follow to the

ruler's house

 

 

 

 

Made 12 year old girl rise

departed, followed by two blind men

and healed them: Thou Son of David..

Then called 12 together and gave the

power over devils, etc.

He is the son of Mary, the brother of

James, Joses, Juda & Simon

Sent disciples out 2 by 2

Man with palsey; uncovered roof

so he could be lowered into house

 

 

Certain scribes asked, Who can fogive

sins?

 

 

 

 

Son of Man has power to forgive sin

Sees the publican; has dinner with him

and his friends

 

Accused of eating with Publicans &

sinners; they said desciples of

John fasted, but not Jesus

Jesus replied, I have come to call

sinners into repentance

 

No man seweth an old cloth to a new

garment

 

No man putteth new wine in old

bottles

Jesus appointed Apostles; gave them

power against unclean spirits

Surnamed Simon "Peter"; James &

John surnamed "Boanerges"

Go not to the Gentile

Went through corn field; ate corn on

the Sabbath; desciples questioned their

lawfulness (see 1 Clement 16.6)

 

Healed man with a withered hand;

Pharisees questioned this

 

 

 

 

 

Pharisees and scribes questioned

lawfulness

Answered: you would save a sheep

in a pit on the sabbath

Pharisees counseled against him;

they might destroy him

Jesus withdrew himself

 

Great multitudes began to follow him

coming from Galilee and Judaea

Charged them not to tell the people

that he had been in the streets, so

that the prophesy of Isaias could

be fulfilled (Isa. 42.1):

Behold my servant, whom I uphold

mine elect, in whom my soul

delighteth; I have put my spirit

upon him: he shall bring forth

judgment to the Gentiles.

He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor

cause his voice to be heard in the

street.

A bruised reed shall he not break,

and the smoking flax shall he not

quench; he shall bring forth

judgment unto truth.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged

till he have set judgment in

the earth; and the isles shall wait for

his law.

Went into a ruler's house to heal a

young maid

Heal's a dumb man with a devil

 

 

Pharisees said that he casteth out

devils by the prince of devils

Answered Kingdom cannot be divided

against itself

Blind and dumb man healed

This man cast out devils by Beezelbub

Harvest is great but the laborers

are few

To enter a strong man's house you

must first bind him

 

 

 

 

 

He that is not with me is against me

Blaspheme not against the Holy

Ghost

Tree is known by his fruit

 

Generation of vipers, etc.

 

Bring forth good things out of the

good treasures of your heart

Pharisees asked for a sign

Answered: Sign of prophet Jonas

As Jonas was in the belly of the whale

three days

Parable of the Unclean Spirits

 

 

Instructions of Ordination (after he

ordained the 12 Apostles)

Gave them power over unclean

spirits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go not to the Gentiles

 

 

 

 

 

Provide neither gold nor purse

 

 

Sent forth as sheep in the midst of

wolves

Be as wise as serpents and harmless

as doves

The Spirit of my Father shall speak

in you

 

 

 

 

 

Ye shall be hated for my names sake

 

7.9-10

 

 

 

7.11

 

 

 

 

 

7.12

 

 

7.13

 

7.15

 

7.17

 

 

7.21

 

 

 

7.23

7.29

 

 

8.8

8.11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.29

 

 

 

 

 

8.14

 

8.15

 

 

8.17

 

8.2

8.5

 

8.1

8.20

8.21

 

8.22

8.23

 

 

 

8.24

8.28

 

8.28

 

8.28

 

 

8.31

 

 

 

 

9.1

 

 

9.19

 

9.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.24

9.27

 

10.1

 

9.6

 

 

9.2

 

 

 

9.3

 

 

 

 

 

9.6

9.1

 

 

9.1

 

 

9.13

 

 

9.16

 

 

9.17

 

10.1

 

10.2

 

10.5

12.1ff

 

 

 

12.10

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.10

 

12.11

 

12.14

 

12.15

 

4.26

 

12.16

 

 

4.12

12.18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.33

 

9.34

 

 

12.25

 

12.26

 

9.37

 

 

5.15

12.29

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.30

12.31

 

12.33

 

12.34

 

 

12.35

12.38

12.39

 

12.40

12.43

 

 

10.1

 

10.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.18; same as Luke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.5

 

 

 

 

 

10.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.22

 

 

1.24

 

1.28

1.29 Went into the house

of Simon and Andrew

1.31

1.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.1 went into a ship &

gave a sermon

 

 

4.39

5.1 Came to country of the Gadarenes

5.2 Man came out of tomb with unclean spirits & in chains and fetters

 

5.7..Jesus, thou son of the Most High God..

 

5.9

 

5.20

 

 

 

 

6.2

5.23

 

5.25

 

 

 

 

5.37

 

 

 

 

 

5.41

 

 

 

 

6.7

 

6.7

2.4

 

 

 

2.7

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.16, 2.19

 

 

 

 

 

2.17

 

 

2.21

 

 

2.22

 

3.14

 

3.14

 

 

2.26

 

 

 

3.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.6 Counseled with Herodia; how they might destroy him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.19 went into a house

 

3.11 healed many

unclean spirits; ..said

Thou art the Son of God

3.22 Scribes said he

heals by Beezelbub

3.22

 

3.19

3.22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.29

 

11.11 If a son shall ask bread of

a father, will he give him a

stone?..or a fish a serpent?..and

an egg a scorpion?

11.13 If ye being evil know how

to give good gifts, etc.

11.14 and he was casting out a

dumb man..

11.15 "he casteth out devils thru

Beezelbub" (see item 409)

 

 

 

13.24 Strive to enter in at the

straight gate

 

 

13.25

 

 

 

6.48

 

 

7.1

7.2

 

 

 

7.11

7.17

 

7.17

 

4.17 Preaches in the

synagogue; reads Isa. 61.1

 

4.34 Thou art the Holy One

of God

4.37

 

 

4.39

4.41

 

 

 

 

7.1 After Sermon in plain

went again to Capaernaum

 

9.58 said foxes have holes

9.59 and he said to another follow me, but he said Lord let me first bury... 9.60 let the dead bury the dead

5.3 As the people pressed to hear he stood by the lake of Gennesaret & saw 2 ships. Entered Simon's ship and taught

 

8.23, 8.24

8.26 Came to the country of the Gadarenes

8.27 Naked man with devil came out of a tomb

 

8.28 "What have I to dowith thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? Torment me not.."

8.29

 

8.39 And he went his way & published throught the whole city how great things Jesus had done to him

 

8.40 And when Jesus was returned the people gladly received him

 

8.41

 

8.43

8.45

8.49

 

 

8.51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in save Peter, James & John & father & mother & maiden

8.53 The people laughed him to scorn, knowing the daughter was dead

 

8.55

 

 

9.13

 

 

2.14

14.1 And it came to pass as

he went into a Pharisee's house

14.2 and behld a man with dropsy whom he healed

14.3 Pharisees asked, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?

14.5 Jesus replied, which of you will not save an ass or an ox fallen into a pit on the sabbath?-see also 5.21

 

 

5.29 Publican's name is Levi; there was a geat company of publicans eating with Jesus

5.30

 

 

 

5.34 Jesus answered, Can ye make the children of the bridegroom fast while the groom is with them?

5.36

 

 

5.37

 

6.13 Ordained the 12, then

the multide followed him.

 

 

 

6.1; 6.3-Analogy of David stealing the shewbread in the temple to save lives

6.5 Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath

 

6.6 right hand was withered

6.7 Scribes & Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath

 

6.8 He knew their thoughts and a man stood up, saying, Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or evil, to save a life or destroy it?

 

6.9 Jesus healed the man

with the withered hand

6.11 Pharisees filled with madness

6.12 Went to a mountain to pray; afterwards ordained12 disciples

 

6.17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.41 "Thou art Christ the

Son of God"

 

11.14 He casteth out devils by beezelbub, the Chief of the devils..

11.14

 

11.14

11.18

10.2

 

11.21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.

11.22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him & overcome him all his armour he taketh from him and divideth the spoils

 

12.10 But unto him that Blasphemes against the Holy Ghost, etc.

6.44 every Tree is known by his own fruit

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.30 as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man

be to this generation

11.24 When unclean spirit...findest his house swept and garnished when he returns to his home 6.13 Ordained the 12; then the multitude followed him

9.1 Then he called his 12 disciples and gave them power & authority over all devils to cure diseases, etc.

 

 

10.17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are sjubjected unto us through thy name

10.18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven

 

10.19 Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

10.20 Rejoice that your names are written in heaven

10.21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced and said:

Thank thee O lord...that thou hast hid these things from the wise & prudent & hast revealed them unto babes; even so father for it seemed good in thy sight.

10.23 Blessed are the eyes that see the things ye see.

10.4 Carry neither purse, scrip, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way

 

 

 

 

10.3 Behold I send you forth as lambs among wolves

 

 

 

10.7 Go not from House to house; Wipe off the dust from your shoes for cities which do not receive you.

 

9.5 Whosoever shall not receive you shake off the dust...

 

1.6 There was a man sent from God

 

 

 

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