The Gospels, written by believing Christians, are confessions of faith in Christ crucified and risen. The Gospels are sermons meant to stir up faith in the living Christ. The Gospels were written to persuade men of all times and places to believe that Christ died in order to destroy all death, and that he rose again in order to restore all life. .
Many people think that the Gospels are books which make sense only to people who are Christian believers. The authors of the Gospels were not just evangelists trying to convert people. They were trying to make a convincing appeal to historical facts, things that had really happened. Where we can check information, usually on matters of background, political situation, geography, we can generally find that the Gospels report a fairly complex situation pretty accurately. In fact modern critical analysis has shown that they are reliable. Moreover, they contain eyewitness accounts. The Gospels record what really did happen in Jesus" life.
All three Gospels, Mark, Matthew, and Luke, tell their audience about the life of Jesus Christ. They all started out with the birth of Jesus and his childhood, except in Mark. Then they followed with Jesus" baptism and his teachings to his disciples. They all showed Jesus" authorities and power over demons, sins and sickness. Finally all three gospels ended with the last supper, the betrayal, the crucifixion, the death and the resurrection of Jesus.
The three gospels contain similar ideas and information about Jesus life but their purposes are different. The three authors wrote their work to their own audience. In this paper, I"ll show the background of the three authors, their purposes and how they presented Jesus" life to their audience.
When careful study of all three synoptic Gospels is taken, one would begin to recognize the astonishing similarities they share. Which poses the question "In what order were the Gospels written?" Most scholars adopt a date after 70 C.
