Hey, this is John at the Bible Project. We are doing an ongoing series called How to Read the Bible,

and right now we're discussing how to read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four books in

the New Testament, the Gospel according to Matthew, according to Mark, according to Luke, and according

to John. These are four ancient biographies of Jesus, and it kind of makes you wonder, why did we

get four? And why do all four open in very different ways? For very different beginnings,

four totally different strategies for introducing an ancient biography. Each gospel has a different

beginning because the author wants to take you on a different journey, a journey to understand how

Jesus is the climax of the Hebrew Scriptures. They're constantly and from the first moments,

tying the Jesus story back into the Hebrew Scriptures. This is one of the main ways the

Gospels work. There's not a story, not a parable of Jesus, not a teaching of Jesus,

that isn't packed with Old Testament illusions. So today we'll break down the wall that often

exists in our minds between the Old and New Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures and the Gospels,

and see how really they're all telling the same story pointing to Jesus. Thanks for joining us.

Here we go.

Okay, let's continue talking about the Gospel. Yes, how to read the Gospels. How to read the Gospel?

How to read the four-fold Gospel accounts?

There you go.

The singular Gospel told according to four different points of view. That's the title of each

of the books, the Gospel singular, according to, and then the four different names. Matthew, Mark,

Luke, and John.

And this is in our How to Read the Bible series. What we talked about last time was what that

term Gospel means. Yes.

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