Gospels

How strange it is, when one comes to consider it, that the impression of absolute perfection, free from all limitations of race or country or epoch or individual character -- and yet not a vague abstraction but a true living Person -- has been printed upon the minds and hearts of the world by these four little pamphlets which we call gospels! ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

While the gospels in the New Testament are about telling the story of Jesus, the point of the gospels is not found within in the narrative, that is, by reading, studying and learning the order of events. ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

And they should be running away from this Rev Garner, because his courage in FINALLY stepping out and standing up to this evangelical bastardization of the gospels is going to likely start a trend. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They called their gospels heresy, and the Nag Hammadi texts were hidden for two thousand years. ❋ Jodi Picoult (2008)

Nag Hammadi is the source of the off-label gospels the pope and his merry minions since the 4th century have tried to prevent the rest of us from reading. ❋ PeaceBang (2006)

Now let’s look at the gospels from a historical perspective; a. Mark has Jesus appearing before the Sanhedrin at the palace of the high priest (Mark 14: 53), when historically the Sanhedrin met at the Beth Din, a part of the Jerusalem temple. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So, if it is true, as the scriptures claim, that Jesus' resurrection is the first resurrection of the general resurrection of all the dead that will happen on "the last day," then what we have in the resurrection appearances of Jesus recorded in the gospels is a portrait of what it is that human identity consists of. ❋ Scott MacDougall (2012)

What control do you have that assures you that the Jesus of the gospels is the Jesus Paul preached of? ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

Some of the books that are called gospels aren't narratives but teachings about Christ like the gnostic "Gospel of Truth". ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

Well, the writers of the gospels were the anti-semitic Jews (except Luke, who was merely an anti-semite) and they wanted to explain the reason why there were still Jews. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think the fact that it does not seem to have been lends credence to the view that the gospels were a later historicization of a person about whose life very little was actually known. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Another of the constantly interesting features of Jesus 'conversation in the gospels is his refusal to answer questions in the terms they are put. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Our gospels are the result of the natural desire to preserve the apostolic testimony for a generation that could no longer hear the apostolic voice; and they are precisely what such a sense of need would produce, -- vivid pictures of Jesus, agreeing in general features, differing more or less in details, reflecting individual feeling for the Master, and written not simply to inform men but to convince them of that Master's claims. ❋ Rush Rhees (N/A)

If the personal claim was true, and not the blind pretence of vanity, the Jesus of the gospels is the exception to the uniform fact of human nature, but he is no longer unaccountable; and if his claim was true, his knowledge of the absolute religion, and his choice of the irresistible propaganda, are no less extraordinary, but they are not unaccountable. ❋ Rush Rhees (N/A)

Ammonius, an Egyptian Christian nearly cotemporary with Origen (third century), wrote a Harmony of the four gospels, which is supposed to be one of those still extant in the _Biblioth. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then the deacon intones "Proschume" (let us attend), and elevates the book of the gospels, which is incensed as he brings it to the altar, making the Little Entrance. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

St. Justin Martyr (130-63) in his Apology refers to certain "memoirs of the Apostles, which are called gospels", and which "are read in Christian assemblies together with the writings of the Prophets". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)