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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. It portrays Jesus as a miracle worker, and never calls him "God".
* ''Gospel of Luke'' - Written for Gentiles, it portrays Jesus as a [[Nice Guy]] who preached kindness and charity. This gospel takes the most in-depth look of the four canonical gospels into Jesus' origin story, and contains the most parables.
* ''Gospel of John'' - The newest, most introspective, and most theological of the four canonical gospels, it was written for Christians.
The apocryphal gospels - ''Epistle of the Apostles, Gospel According to the Hebrews, Gospel of the Ebionites, Gospel of the Egyptians, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of the Nazareans, Gospel of Nicodemus, Gospel of Peter, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of the Saviour, Coptic Gospel of Thomas, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Truth, Papyrus Egerton 2, Diatessaron, Protoevangelium of James, Gospel of Marcion, Secret Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Judas,'' and ''Gospel of Barnabas'' - are all of later authorship. These are discussed only in passing on this page.
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** 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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