to note instead that the emphasis on truth qua story today is manifest. Instead, we shall look at how the story of Jesus as recorded by Mark, Matthew, and Luke has been examined by modern scholars because it was one of these ‘stories of Jesus’ that shaped the consciousness of many early Christians. Modern Synoptic specialists examine three dimensions of the Synoptic story: they look through the window of the story to find what really happened in history, they look at the window and its frame to recognize