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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...

framework, thus preserving characteristic elements from each and giving a plausible account about how these diverse elements are related. Our conviction is that what we have in the trustworthy accounts of the four Gospels is not disharmony but convergence. Although we have come to use the terms in a rather interchangeable fashion, “harmonies” and “synopses” are really not the same. Technically, a harmony refers to a literary work that has interwoven two or more sections of
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