Three Little Gospels Analysis

There are always many ways to tell a story, depending on the point of view. For instance, there is the story of the Three Little Pigs. There is the original story depicting the the Big Bad Wolf, as just that; big, bad, and scary. He wants to eat all the pigs and destroy their homes. However, later there was a book published from the Wolf’s point of view, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, which stated that the Wolf was just going to the pigs home to borrow baking ingredients. This classic childrens story shows how any same story or event can be portrayed or interpreted differently based on the author’s specific point of view. Just like the story of the three little pigs, the Gospels of Luke and John tell the same story of Jesus’s life

John the Apostle was a former fisherman and beloved disciple of Jesus himself. John wrote his Gospel to convince unbelievers to believe in Jesus Christ and be saved. The Gospel of Luke, was written by Luke, a gentile physician. The purpose of Luke’s Gospel was to provide the Gentiles with a complete and accurate record of Jesus’s life. Ultimately, the difference in the two Gospels’ portrayals of Jesus show how the two authors are writing about the same subject matter but come up with two very different conclusions. The portrayal of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, as the savior of the world with compassion to all beings, contrasts completely with the portrayed Jesus in the Gospel of John as the Son of God, Word made flesh, and provider of eternal life to his

A very famous quote in the Gospel of John is the first verse. It speaks of how, “ in the beginning [there was] the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him...”(John 1:1-10). It states that Saint John, was to bear witness of, “the Light, that all men through him might believe” and this Light “was in the world, and the world was made by him” (John 1:1-10) In this excerpt from the Gospel of John, it is stating that God is the Word and he sent John to witness the Light, the light being Jesus. He states that God is the maker of everything and by Jesus being the Light, he is also therefore the creator as well. Therefore, Jesus being the Son of God is also God Himself. Since Jesus in put on Earth in the form of a man, he is the Word made flesh. In the Gospel of John Jesus is seen as the divine character of God. Whereas, in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is seen as the Son of Man a human figure. In Luke the term "Son of Man" was used to say what Jesus actions were, instead of what he was (Son of God). A common interpretation of these two names is that the "Son of God" entails his divinity whereas the “Son of Man” suggests and refers to his humanity. These differing depictions show that the two authors were writing about the same man but came up with