Gospels FInal Flashcards
What is the purpose of Mark?
- Historical: recording for posterity the apostolic witness concerning Jesus
- Christological: combating the heresies of Docestism
- Practical: a call to cross-bearing Discipleship
What are the literary features of Mark
- Literary Style. Fast moving narrative with vivid Description
- Topical ordering of events. Jesus ministry begins with a collection of healing and exorcisms, followed by a series of controversy stories with the religious leaders.
- Intercalation or Sandwiching the events are to the same theme and serve to interpret one another
- Triads or set of threes. Triads to drive home a point (3 boat scenes to illustrate a lack of faith, 3 cycles of events predicting his death, 3 times calling the disciples to alertness.
What is marks portrait of Jesus?
The suffering Servant
In mark who are the Antagonist
- Satan’s Forces. Satan’s Forces are defeated
2. The religious leader. Jesus Growing popularity with the people threatens their status and power
How were the Disciples Though of in Mark
Of the four gospels, Mark portrait of the Disciples is the most NEGATIVE. The 12 are more often examples of failure than success. Mark uses their failure to highlight the faithfulness of Jesus. There is no restoration of the Disciples
What are the theological themes of Mark
- The Kingdom of God. Jesus;s Kingdom has both present and future elements
- Jesus the servant
- Discipleship. True discipleship is following the servant’s suffering path
What is the outling of Mark
- The preparation of the Son of God
- The authoritative ministry in Galilee
- The suffering Son of God as Servant of the Lord
verses 9-20 are not part of the original
(the irresolution of the plot calls the readers to decision
What is the purpose of Mathew?
- To demostrate that Jesus is the MEssiah
2. To call the Church to greater faith and trust in their risen and ever-present Lord
What are the literary feature of Mathew
(Mathew shows the most evidence of careful structure and design)
- Concise Style. Shorter, concise compressing events
- Fulfillment formulas and O.T Quotation. 10 times “this was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet”
- Topical arrangement
- Structured signals
- Strong Jewish orientation
What are the Five major discourses of Mathew?
- Sermon on the Mount
- Commissioning of the twelve
- Parables of the Kingdom
- Church life and discipleship
What is Mathews portrait of Jesus
- The Messiah King
- The Immanuel
- The son of God
What did Mathew think about the disciples
More positive than mark
What did Mathew think about the religious leaders
More negative than mark. They are evil and are aligned with Satan
What did mathew think about the crowd
Fickle and easily manipulated
Final rejection of Jesus (“let his blood be on us and our children”)
What are are the themes of Mathew
- Promise-Fulfillmetn Salvation. Salvation Hisotry reaches its goal and purpose in Jesus the Messiah
- The kingdom of Heaven
- Jesus and the Law. Jesus teachers the continuity of the law and the superiority of the new covenant
What is the outline of Mathew
- Prologue: the genealogy and birth narrative
- The appearance of the messiah
- The ministry of the Messiah to Israel
- the response to the Messiah
- The messiah confronts Jerusalem
- The passion and the resurrection
What is the Gospel of Luke?
Luke-acts is a single volume work (The larges amount of materiel by a N.T author).
What are the Literary feature of Luke
1, Luke begins earlier (announcement of John’s birth and end later
- Luke (not an eye witness) draws from other written sources
- Mathew contains 90% of mark. Luke contains about half of mark
- skilled literary artist withe the finest Greek in the N.T
What is the most unique feature in Luke?
is is the extended, meandering travel to jeruslaem
What is luke’s portrait of jesus
- A prophet like Moses, mighty in word and deed
2. Christ the Lord. Savior of the world
Luke view of the disciples?
Luke is more positive, describing them as apostles in training(highest)
Religious leader in Luke?
are shown to be self righteous, resulting in foolish rejection of God’s offer of Salvation
There is still hope because the failure comes from the foolishness and ignorance
What are the themes of Luke
1.Promise-Fulfillment
2. The dawn of Salvation and the Holy Spirit
3. Divine Sovereignty and the purpose of God
4. Salvation for Outsiders
5 Jerusalem and the temple
6. Joy, Praise, and celebration ( Unusual number of banquets)
7. Prayer and intimate fellowship with the father
What is the outline of Luke
- Prologue
- Birth of the Savior
- Preparation of the Savior
- The Galilean Ministry
- The journey to Jerusalem
- The Jerusalem ministry
- The passion
- The resurrection and ascension
