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Composite Gospel: Parallel Passages is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Composite Gospels is a new kind of tool for studying the parallels and differences that exist in the Gospel stories. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all tell the same story of Jesus’s life, teaching, death, and resurrection, but they each present that material in different ways, even among the three Synoptic Gospels.

In contrast, the Composite Gospel is best understood as an index and a reference system: it identifies and points to passages in their original sources, without attempting to produce a single linear text. As such, it is an alternative to the traditional reference scheme of chapter and verse references, but one that is based more strongly on topical content and coherence. One important sub-goal is to be able to look up and refer to pericopes based on conventional descriptions of the content, like