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Grasping God’s Word

Grasping God’s Word. New Testament—Gospels Chapter 15. What are the Gospels. “Good News” ( euangelion ) Select Stories Arranged topical Limited content (John 21:24-25) Ancient Biography Christ-centered Biography. Gospels (theological biographies).

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Grasping God’s Word

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  1. Grasping God’s Word New Testament—Gospels Chapter 15

  2. What are the Gospels • “Good News” (euangelion) • Select Stories • Arranged topical • Limited content (John 21:24-25) • Ancient Biography • Christ-centered Biography

  3. Gospels (theological biographies) • “Formally, a gospel is a narrative account concerning the public life and teaching of a significant person that is composed of discreet traditional units placed in the context of scripture” (IBI, p. 325).

  4. Gospels (interpreting) • They are Theological and Historical • Interpreting horizontally (Historical) • Utilize a harmony of the gospels • Let the gospels interpret one another • Interpreting vertically (Theological) • The first priority • Maintain gospel emphases

  5. Harmony of the Gospels

  6. Horizontally John Matthew Mark Luke 6:1-15 6:32-44 Vertically 9:10-17 14:13-21 Note: Frequently the gospel writers group passages topically or thematically rather than chronologically. Feeding of the Five Thousand Gospels (thinking horizontally and vertically)

  7. Ask Story Questions • Who (characters)? • What (story line)? • When (time)? • Where (place)? • Why (reason)? • How (means)?

  8. Example: Mark 4:35-41 • That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, "Let us go over to the other side." Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?" He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?" They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!" • See how many baseless applications you can think of.

  9. Literary Forms • Exaggeration (Luke 14:26) • Metaphor & Simile (John 6:35) • Narrative Irony (Luke 12:16-21) • Rhetorical Questions (Romans 6:1) • Parallelism (synonymous, contrastive, developmental) • Parables (main point (for each character)): Luke 15:11-32

  10. Gospels and Modern Criticism • The Dilemma of the Synoptics • The Hypothesis of “Q” (quelle) • Common material in Matthew & Luke, not in Mark • Ca. 230 (250 verses) sayings • Alternatives • Luke used Matthew (proto-Matthew) • Matthew and Luke used oral tradition

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