The foregoing module has painted a picture of the Gospels as a disjointed collection of diverse material. Unless we can produce a counter movement toward unity, we will experience the Gospels as a bewildering collection of unrelated fragments. Fortunately, there are unifying principles that can make the Gospels manageable. First, the Gospels have a unifying central character and hero. Everything revolves around Jesus. Most of the events, all of the discourses, and all of