Miracles of Jesus, parallelism in the synoptic gospels?

Answer 1

Matt 8:1-4 with Mark 1:40-44 and Luke 5:12-14

Matt 8:5-13 with Luke 7:1-10

Matt 8:14-16 with Mark 1:29-34 and Luke 4:38-41

Matt 8:23-27 with Mark 4:36-41 and Luke 8:22-25

Matt 8:28-34 with Mark 5:1-17 and Luke 8:26-37

Matt 9:2-8 with Mark 2:3-12 and Luke 5:18-26

And so forth. I could give you more if you'd like, but that's a good start. I would highly recommend the following book if you want to read a good harmony of the four gospels: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080105642X/sr=8-1/qid=1151672321/ref=sr_1_1/002-7382174-0458408?ie=UTF8

Hope that helps!

PS-I was assuming you were wanting examples of parallel accounts of the miracles of Jesus in the synoptic gospels. You can read what others wrote if you want to know what the synoptic gospels are and why they are similar.

Answer 2

The Synoptic Gospels refer to the Gospels of Mathew, Mark and Luke (excluding the Gospel of John). "Synoptic" mean, 'seen with the same eye.' So what is your question?

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Answer 3

Agruably the gospel of Mark was the major reference for the writers of Matthew and Luke, and "synoptic" means, in layman's terms, parallel. So, yes. There are parallels.

Answer 4

And your question is?

Lemme take a guess. You want to know why the similarity of reporting in the synoptic Gospels? That's WHY they're called the "synoptic". means "looking alike".

The three men responsible for Matthew, Mark and Luke were writing for three different audiences, but they were writing about the life, times and activities of the same Person, Jesus of Nazareth. And for the same reason, to convince their audience that He was indeed the Messiah, the Chosen One of God's promise, the Savior, the Annointed One, the Son of the Living God.

Matthew wrote in the framework of the Old Testament prophecies concerning the Messiah, trying to show that Jesus fulfilled those prophecies in every detail.

Mark wrote within the framework of Talmudic Law, trying to show that Jesus was BEFORE the Law, the fulfillment OF the Law and that the Sanhedrin were guilty of totally ignoring those Laws when it came to getting rid of Jesus, a truly frightening rival to their powerbase.

Luke wrote in a human vein for an audience of Gentiles who frankly couldn't care less about Jews and Talmud and prophecies. THEY wanted to know what this Man had to do with THEIR lives.

But all three authors had to do the following for their respective audiences:

A) Make the story convincing.
B) Make it worth listening to.
C) Make it applicable to their audiences' situations.
D) Give Jesus the versimilitude needed to cause these audiences to say, "Yep. That's Him all right. I believe. I accept. Baptize me."

To do the latter two, they included the miracles performed by Jesus during His ministry on Earth. According to John, Jesus apparently did a lot more than any of the four reported, but those chosen were chosen for the following reasons:

A) They included a wide range of power.
B) They included a wide range of people and afflictions; physical, mental and spiritual.
C) They included the ultimate power, that of life and death. Jesus raised at least three dead people to life; the synagogue leader's 12 year old daughter, the son of the widow of Nain and Lazarus, a personal friend.

I expect that given what they DID report that Jesus was probably doing a miracle a day during the entire three or so years of His public life. How else, when there was NO such thing as rapid communication, could the word have spread so far? Remember, He had followers the length and breadth of Judea even before He'd left Galilee. Folks were talking. And they had to have SOMETHING to talk about. That most obvious something for people is to witness a miracle, a completely UNexplainable but very observable event with remarkably positive consequences.

Matthew, Mark and Luke took the most representative of Jesus' miracles and laid them out in writing and said, in effect, "Here. This is what He did. THIS is what He's like. THIS is what your heart has been seeking. THIS is He who will make your life worthwhile, if you but let Him."

Worked too.

And for the twit(s) who keep trotting out that nonsense above:

The Immaculate Conception doesn't have diddly to do with the birth of Jesus. It refers to the conception, without the stain of Original Sin, by a singular Act of Grace from God, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

Jesus is TRUE man, completely human in nature, in form, in substance and in personhood. He is ALSO TRUE God, completely divine in nature, in substance and in Personhood. The man Jesus died on the Cross for our sins to be forgiven. Of course the divine didn't die. The Second Person of the Trinity merely used the temporary cessation of life in His human body to harrow Hell and give everyone ever born a shot at accepting Him. Then that same divine Second Person raised His human body back to life, glorified it with the Divine Will of the entire Trinity and went about being human again for 6 or so weeks, before taking that human self back to heaven, forever entwined, but never mixed, with His divine Self.

Tough row to hoe, but He's divine and infinite and He can do whatever he jolly well pleases. You don't have to understand. you don't even have to accept it. That's your free will prerogative. I do accept it without understanding it. That's MY free will prerogative.

Answer 5

Its "Coptic Gospels".
As far as I know there are no miracles in the Coptic Gospels.
- just mention that Jesus was a healer.

Answer 6

Jesus?

What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?

(NOT A VIRGIN BIRTH! - betcha)

Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .

If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.

Gods do not die? Do they?

If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?

Did Jesus give up Saturday for us? Big deal!

If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.

If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!

If you swallow this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too.

They want everyone to convert to their non-thinking.

Answer 7

Question?

Answer 8

What exactly is your question?

Answer 9

you didn't explain enough for me to understand

Answer 10

i dont know?