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The four Gospels are considered to be four different accounts, from four different people, of how God wanted people to understand the meaning of his word. Within the four Gospels there are many similarities and differences. Through studies historians and Biblical scholars have found that the Gospels share some of the same information. It is believed that the reason for these similarities is that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John used information found in each of their Gospels to form their own, unique, Gospel.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke are considered to be Synoptic Gospels because they have overlapping content with parallel information. The Synoptic Puzzle, according to Powell, “shows us that the Gospel of Matthew is twice as long and contains 90 percent of the material that is in the Gospel of Mark.” To help us understand this even further Powell uses the “Two-Source Hypothesis.” He states that, “Mark’s gospel was written first, Matthew and Luke use Mark as a source, Matthew and Luke used copies of Q, and Matthew and Luke used copies of M and L sources to form their own opinion.” ...

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