The four Gospels in your Bible are actually MORE different than most Christians realize and once you understand HOW, it completely changes the way you read them.
Let me explain.
First, you need to keep this in mind. Each Gospel was written by a real person, with a unique personality, a different purpose, and a particular audience in mind.
Let’s start with Matthew.
Ironically, Matthew was a former tax collector, a profession widely despised by the Jewish people... yet he writes his Gospel primarily for a Jewish audience.
This is why he makes more than 60 references to the Old Testament. He also organizes Jesus' teachings into 5 major discourses, which many scholars see as paralleling the 5 books of Moses... And he presents Jesus as the new and GREATER Moses.
His point? Moses gave us a law written in stone. Jesus gives us a new law written in our hearts.
Mark is next.
The book of Mark is the shortest gospel and was likely written primarily for Roman Gentiles. How do we know?
Because Mark repeatedly explains Jewish customs and traditions that a Jewish audience would have already understood.
Also, Roman society placed enormous value on power, authority, and status. And here comes Mark talking about how Jesus has those things but exercises his authority and power as a *servant.* That would've been a radical message to his audience.
Luke is next.
The Gospel of Luke was written with a broader Gentile Greek speaking audience in mind. Luke, traditionally identified as a physician, was incredibly detailed and organized.
In fact, Luke is the longest Gospel…and the longest individual book in the New Testament. He also wrote the *second* longest book in the New Testament… Acts (which is a sequel to the book of Luke).
Luke is also the only Gospel that gives us detailed accounts of *both* the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus. He also places special emphasis on women, the poor, the marginalized and those that had been rejected by society. Why? Because salvation had reached beyond the religious, social, and ethnic boundaries people had established.
Lastly, the book of John.
It has been traditionally attributed to Jesus' best friend, his beloved disciple who very humbly referred to himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved." Traditionally, many believe John was the youngest disciple, possibly even a teenager when Jesus called him.
Now, John tells us why he writes his gospel in John 20:31. Basically, he just wants to tell people about Jesus so people can trust in Him and be saved.
Interestingly enough, around 90% of John's Gospel contains material not found in Matthew, Mark, or Luke.
It's almost as if he's saying: "I knew Him intimately. And you can know Him too."
Here’s the bottom line.
These are not four different stories.
It’s one truth seen from four different angles, all pointing to the same King.
And His name is Jesus.
This daddy was told by his 8 year old daughter that she went to the restroom at school and a boy walked in there to watch her pee and that she went to the front office and told them what happened and they told her that there’s NOTHING they can do about it.
Well, the Daddy went in front of the Cabarrus School board to protect his daughter’s right.: “ Cowards… I’ll tell you what, I wanna prove that y’all are hypocrites. So each of you ladies, I want you to invite your husbands and let’s go to the bathroom and I want them to watch me watch you use the bathroom and let’s see if they get mad… Now stand up and do something, you’re so scared to lose federal funding, it’s ridiculous… There’s one woman on this board that stands up for the people and the kids. That’s a role model. Listen and pay attention, that’s why she gets the votes…”
This is how it’s done Parents🙏🏼🔥🔥🔥
Jason seems to have two different personalities in GTA 6, and I think that people calling him boring could do with rewatching Trailer 2.
During the montage at the start of Trailer 2 we see him entirely in his comfort zone. His day-to-day cycle consists of fixing up his house (which he doesn’t pay for), extorting businesses for Brian, working out, and buying beer. He’s completely familiar with this way of living, there’s nothing particularly that stressful or unbeknownst to him about this routine.
I think this explains why in the very first sequence of the trailer he’s witty with Brian in a way that we haven’t really seen much else of the time. “What, that’s why you came by?” and then sarcastically reciting “Love you, Jason” under his breath.
This sense of familiarity and comfort ALL changes as soon as Lucia gets out of prison and the both of them get into the mess that kicks off the main story. Their “easy score” goes wrong and all of a sudden Jason is in completely uncharted territory. As a result of this, his guard goes up, and his more serious (potentially military-like) persona that we’ve seen in a lot of newer material comes into play.
We still get some of his dry sarcasm in the Extended Look, but only when he’s 1-on-1 with Lucia, probably because this is where he feels the most comfortable. “Yeah, you’re the perfect criminal.” (referencing her getting locked up), and “Miss me?” etc etc.
Basically, I think that Jason’s arc will likely resolve around him opening up and becoming more adjusted to their circumstances over the course of the main story. We know that Jason and Lucia have different ambitions from their character bios, Lucia wants to go right to the very top of the criminal world, whereas Jason is much more conservative about his goals. Jason becoming more closed off after they’re thrusted into trouble as opposed to Lucia’s continued goofiness is meant to represent this difference between them.
I have heard it all.
No I won’t ever stop sharing about Jesus and the word and the Love of God.
So try all you want. Your lies and anger will never be able to stop me.
EVER.
We’re not playing this game
Nidal Hasan walked up to a pregnant woman curled up on the ground begging for her baby’s life and shot her
He is getting exactly what he deserved a long time ago
A brave patriot wearing a MAGA hat and carrying an American flag has arrived outside the ICE facility in Portland.
He said he came out after seeing my security guard and I getting surrounded by Antifa, and wanted to show his support.
Antifa immediately surrounded him.
This gutless left-wing cretin, taunts a young pregnant lady in the street, walks up and slaps her in the face.
A bystander that witnesses this cowardly act instantly gives this tree hugger a good old fashioned beating whilst he squeals like a pig on the ground.
It's refreshing to see evidence of a man protecting a woman. It's rare these day's. Normally they have their phone's out recording instead of protecting!