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Gospel harmonies were inevitable. One of the first impulses of someone studying a teaching or an event in Jesus’ life is to seek as many perspectives on that event as possible. Around A.D. 160 Tatian compiled a single narrative of the four Gospels, reducing the number of verses from 3,780 (four separate Gospels) to 2,769 verses without excluding any event or teaching from the life of Jesus. This...

Matthew is at once the most Jewish and the most universal of the Gospels. His Gospel is noteworthy in its use of the OT, containing more direct quotes and allusions than any of the others. At the same time it is the only Gospel to include the word “church” and it explains that the Great Commission includes everyone. It is written to people who are sympathetic to Jewish life. Yet it must explain how and why Christians have taken the message to non-Jewish
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