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| elevator pitch = The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
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| followed by = Acts of the Apostles
| publication date = somewhere between 66 and 110, varying between gospels
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The first four books of the [[The Bible|New Testament]], chronicling the life of one [[Jesus Christ]].
Despite the traditional names of the gospels, they are anonymous works. Modern scholars doubt that any of them were eyewitness reports - any statement disagreeing with that position in the trope list is [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|a matter of faith]].
There are four canonical gospels:
* ''Gospel of Matthew'' - This gospel compares Old Testament scripture with Jesus' deeds, to appeal to Jews.
* ''Gospel of Mark'' - The oldest Gospel, written for the Romans.
* ''Gospel of Luke'' - Written for Gentiles,
* ''Gospel of John'' - The newest, most introspective
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* [[Go and Sin No More]]:
* [[Obvious Judas]]:
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* [[An Aesop]]: The point of most of Jesus' parables.
* [[Ancient Rome]]: The setting for the narratives.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Luke, who was a doctor, notes several medical details in his accounts that the other authors glossed over, such as that the girl who Jesus brought back from the dead died of a high fever, or that Christ was sweating blood at Gethsemane.
* [[Author Avatar]]: The [[Naked People Are Funny|naked guy]] mentioned in Mark 14:51-52 was probably Mark himself.
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* [[Flipping the Table]]: Jesus does this with the moneychangers in the Temple.
* [[Heaven Seeker]]: with Jesus and most of his followers.
▲* [[Go and Sin No More]]: Another [[Trope Namer]], from Jesus' response to a woman caught in adultery (John 8).
* [[Intimidating Revenue Service]]: Whenever Jesus needs an example of a profession that everyone will instantly recognize as corrupt and sinful, he mentions... (prostitutes? pharisees? torturers?)... ''tax collectors.'' [[Justified]], since in [[Ancient Rome]] tax collectors were pretty universally reviled for extorting money from their countrymen while being on the take. Also [[Averted]], in that some tax collectors such as Matthew and Zacchaeus are shown to be redeemed.
* [[Jesus Taboo]]: [[Captain Obvious|Averted]].
* [[Love Redeems]]: Very, very much the theme of Jesus' teachings, as exemplified in John 3:16:
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* [[Never Accepted in His Hometown]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Herod]]: Matthew's account of Herod's attempted murder of the infant Messiah is the [[Trope Maker]].
▲* [[Obvious Judas]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. (Plus, it's [[Captain Obvious|rather obvious]] which one of Jesus' disciples is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Judas]], too...)
* [[One Steve Limit]]: [[Averted]].
** Among Jesus' disciples, there were two men named James, two named Judas, and two named Simon (one had to be [[Only Known by Their Nickname|nicknamed]] "Peter"). On one occasion, John has to introduce dialogue by saying, "Judas, [[Name's the Same|not Iscariot]], said..."
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** Also, depending how you count, there may be as many as four women (and definitely at least two) named Mary, apart from Jesus' Mother.
** There are even two [[Nice Job Breaking It, Herod|Herods]]-- Herod the Great and Herod Antipas.
* [[Real Men Love Jesus]]: Oh yes. Most of the disciples qualify, for a start.
* [[Rashomon Style]]: There's a reason this page isn't called "The One Gospel." The four different versions of the story mostly serve to complement and expand on each other, though [[Understatement|a few points are harder to reconcile]]. Among scholars, this is known as the [[wikipedia:Gospel harmony|"Harmony of the Gospels"]]; you can even buy editions of [[The Bible]] that lay out the four accounts side by side for easy comparison. For those who like charts, there's [[media:Relationship between synoptic gospels-en.svg|this chart showing what percentage of content the first three gospels share with each other]].
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Matthew 23 was this from Jesus against the Pharisees.
* [[Star of Bethlehem]]: Matthew provides the [[Ur Example]].
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** Both times, the Pharisees were attempting a [[Morton's Fork]], but Jesus succeeded in [[Cutting the Knot]].
* [[The Three Wise Men]]: They make their [[Ur Example|first appearance]] here, though Matthew doesn't specify that there were three exactly (that's a [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|later tradition]] due to them bringing three gifts).
▲* [[Turn the Other Cheek]]: [[Trope Namer]].
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