Have you ever listened to a group of your friends tell you about a situation that they all participated in? If you have, then you would probably notice that each one of them tells the story a little bit different than the other person. Everyone always has his or her own perspective about what happened, but all in all they a particularly the same with little dispute. The four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all tell their own personal perspective of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Scholars began to theorize that Mark wrote his gospel first and Matthew and Luke used his gospel as a stepping-stone for their gospels. Those three gospels only differ in certain parts but never in all three, for example Luke may leave out or change a part that is in Mark but Matthew will agree with Mark in that same instance . John is the odd man out of the gospels; unlike the other three he doesn't account information on the birth or resurrection of Jesus. John also portrays Jesus differently than the other writers. In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting the death of Jesus as seen by those four writers. .
Mark describes the death of Jesus as that of a real criminal's death on the cross. He does this for two reasons, one being to show other Christians what kind of persecution they may also go through and to prove "that out of human malice and blindness the divine goal is accomplished. " This is Jesus" last time to prove that he is the Son of God before his resurrection so he puts aside his pain and suffering and collects all of his remaining strength and "cries with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me (Mark 15:34)?"" After exclaiming that out loud, some people begin to doubt their thoughts and begin to think that he could be the Son of God. Immediately after he dies the curtain in the temple is torn in half and one person, the centurion seems to be the only one that finally realizes out of all the unbelievers that he truly was the Son of God.
