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Jesus’ Emotions in the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

Attention is often paid to the events of Jesus’ life, his teaching, and his ministry, but rarely is Jesus’ emotional life considered. The emotional challenges posed throughout the New Testament gain new significance when understood side-by-side with the emotional character of Jesus. In this book, Voorwinde builds a careful picture of Jesus within the theological framework of each of the Gospels,...

to make, these accounts also overlap in significant ways in their presentation of Jesus’ emotions. Because of this overlap the Synoptic problem becomes a relevant issue for our investigation. If these Gospels are ostensibly reporting the same incidents in Jesus’ life, but in their recording of those incidents they report Jesus’ emotions differently, then it is important to know which Gospel has priority and who is borrowing from whom. The problem is that in the current state of Gospel studies these
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