why are the gospels different from each other?

Question

which gospel says about jesus the truth...it is really confusing me... if it is mathews, jesus was willing to die...then why did jesus cry out "God, God, why have you forsaken me" while he really wanted to die?

ya but...in luke, jesus says he has placed his soul in gods hand, but in the first two, it says jesus cried for help

Answer 1

Jesus Christ was a man of prayer. (Matthew 6:9-13; John 17:1-26) He had full confidence that his heavenly Father would hear and answer his prayers. Jesus once said: “Father, . . . I knew that you always hear me.” (John 11:41, 42) But was Jesus not disappointed at the very end of his earthly course? Did he not then cry out: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”—Matthew 27:46.

When Jesus said those words, evidently he was fulfilling a prophecy concerning his death. (Psalm 22:1) In a qualified sense, Jesus could also have meant that Jehovah had removed his protection and let his Son die a painful and shameful death so as to test his integrity to the limit. An examination of the events on that final day of Jesus’ earthly life shows that God heard his prayers.

On the night of his arrest, Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. Three times he pleaded: “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me.” (Matthew 26:39, 42, 44) Jesus was not reluctant to give his life as a ransom for believing mankind. No, but he apparently was deeply concerned about the possibility of dishonoring his dearly beloved Father by dying on a torture stake as a cursed blasphemer. Did Jehovah hear Jesus’ prayer?

Years later the apostle Paul wrote: “In the days of his flesh Christ offered up supplications and also petitions to the One who was able to save him out of death, with strong outcries and tears, and he was favorably heard for his godly fear.” (Hebrews 5:7; Luke 22:42, 44) Yes, on the agonizing night preceding his death, Jesus “was favorably heard.” But how?

Jehovah sent an angel who “appeared to [Jesus] and strengthened him.” (Luke 22:43) Thus strengthened, Jesus was able to face death on the torture stake. Apparently, Jehovah then gave him assurance that his death on the stake would not bring reproach on the divine name but would eventually be the very thing used to sanctify it. Indeed, Jesus’ death on the torture stake opened a way for Jews, who were otherwise cursed under the Law, to be saved from condemnation to death.—Galatians 3:11-13.

Three days later, Jehovah resurrected Jesus and cleared him of any possible charge of blasphemy by exalting him to a superior heavenly position. (Philippians 2:7-11) What a marvelous way to answer Jesus’ prayer concerning “this cup”! That prayer was answered in Jehovah’s way. And Jesus experienced wonderful blessings because he had told his heavenly Father: “Let, not my will, but yours take place.”—Luke 22:42.

Answer 2

OK...first you have to remember two things about the gospels.

1 Some of them were written many years after Jesus's death by people who never met him in life, or witnessed his death.

2 Like most religious writing they are not just meant to tell a story, but also to inspire people and to persuade them to adopt a particular viewpoint. In this case, a little, ( and sometimes a lot ) of poetic license is exercised. If an embellishment makes a story more appealing, then often it gets added, true or not.

This is true throughout the Bible. It is also now known from sources such as the Dead Sea scrolls, that there were many more than 4 gospels. The early church hand picked the scriptures that they wanted and supressed the rest. Contradictions were brushed aside and anyone who questioned too closely could be dismissed as a heretic anyway. It is only in our very liberated age that it has even been possible to ask a question such as yours.

Answer 3

None of the gospels were written by the people whose names are on them. They are 'The Gospel ACCORDING to'. They are all 'pseudepigrapha', meaning anonymously written and attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They were all written at least several decades after Jesus's death.

It's thought that the three 'synoptic' gospels were written, at least partly, from some source documents that have since disappeared. They have some of the same stories, but told slightly differently.

The question about 'Why have you forsaken me' is a good one! Also, if Jesus came to earth to die for our sins, why is Judas seen as a villain? His 'betrayal' of Jesus was just part of the plan! Jesus even tells him 'go and do what you're supposed to do.'

The New Testament was created about 400 years after Jesus lived. Before that there was not a New Testament, only different writings and documents, most of which were left out of the NT. There were many groups of Christians who believed different things. There was great disagreement on whether Jesus was a god or a man or both ('both' eventually won out).

But one group believed that Jesus was just a man but Christ was a God, who took over Jesus, sort of like demonic possession (but more like angelic possession), and this was how he was able to work miracles. Since a god can't die, or even feel pain, the Christ abandoned Jesus on the cross, and that's why Jesus said 'Why have you forsaken me?'

Answer 4

To even regard Jesus' quote as one of desperation is to completely misunderstand what the cry was all about. It is not the cry of a victim, but -- along with the earthquake, the darkness, the rending of the Temple veil -- an eschatological sign, not merely a prayer. Consider:

The cry was made at the ninth hour -- the exact time of the Jewish afternoon prayers. [Brown, Death of the Messiah, DMh, 1044n]
Elsewhere in the Bible, a loud cry is used as an apocalyptic sign (John 5:28, 1 Thess. 4:16, Rev. 10:3).
The comments of the guards in 27:54 may allude to Ps. 22:27. ("All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.") [Harrington's commentary on Matthew, 403].
There are some strong indications, then, that this "loud cry" is an allusion to the whole of Ps. 22, including its triumphant ending. The only real objections to this thesis are:

According to Brown [Death of the Messiah, 1050], "it would mean that Mark [and presumably Matthew] expected his readers to recognize that a psalm was being cited, to know the whole psalm, and to detect from a reference to the agonized opening verse the triumphant fate of the one who prays". This is not at all difficult to accept: The Gospels were written for Christians who would already have known of Christ's triumphant fate, and Ps. 22 would have been taught as a key Messianic text.

Answer 5

The gospels were written 20 to 180 years after Jesus died. Most researchers doubt they were written by his apostles. They were oral stories put to print. Some of contradictions were to put emphasis on a new thought or claim. Early Christians were originally of the Jewish faith. So they still worshiped in the temple. After Paul started preaching to the gentiles (non-jews), there was conflict on was this another sect of Judaism or a new religion altogether. In order to put forth the claim that they were the true religion, Jesus had to be without sin and the son of God. So this was added to the later Gospels.

Answer 6

They were written by different authors at different times. It is believed that none of the gospel authors knew Jesus personally and that the gospels are based on oral traditions. The earliest gospel, Mark, is believed to have been written about 35 years after Jesus' death. It is thought that the gospels of Luke and Matthew are based on Mark, with embellishments to glorify Jesus and help gain and retain converts to Christianity.
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Answer 7

None are comprehensive, but all are true. Though they must be understood in the sense in which they have been written.

As for the "why have you forsaken me", Jesus was simply quoting Psalm 22, a Psalm of David written 1000 years before predicting the death of the Messiah.

Read it and you'll find more details fulfilled at the crucifixion. As such Jesus was simply pointing to himself as the Messiah.

Answer 8

They are written in different angles for different groups of people. Also two of the Gospel writers were witnesses to the events that they wrote about. John and Matthew were two of the twelve apostles. Mark and Luke heard about the events from Paul and others. Theirs are not first hand encounters.

Answer 9

Because they were written by four diferent peoples at four diferent times and in four diferent circumstances.
Any event, when is told by four diferent people, you are gonna get four diferent versions of it, although the core of truth is the same. That's all there is to it. Each evangelists focuses into a diferent aspect of the good news.
The words "Eli Eli Lama sabachtani are actually words out of Psalm 22, in which you can read: "They divided my garments among them,..they plucked my beard, etc" but the psalm actually ends in triumph and rectification of the sufferer, and in praise to God. What is really amazing is not that Jesus at the time of his crucifiction would cry "Father why have you forsake me?". The amazing part is that even at that hour and in the midst of his torment he was praying ,quoting from scripture a psalm that prophecized about Him, that is the amazing fact!.

God bless all

Answer 10

The only way they are different is:
1. Written by different people
2. Reveal Jesus to different groups of people

Matthew Jesus as the King of Israel
Mark Jesus as a Servant to All
Luke Jesus as a man
John Jesus as God