People were dying and WROTE down brief accounts of things jesus said and did.

Christians were sharing letters and people were getting used to reading.

And People remembered what Jesus said and did and share these memories with others ORALLY

Religious Leaders.

Believe in the laws.

Pagan religion= mystery religion- Heavy on practices but do not care what you believe in

Philosophies= Greek mythology, ancestors

what mark writes, matthew takes over.

1/4 of lukes gospel is from matthews gospel.

(Memorize diagram)

Matthews came first who provided stuff for Luke and Mark.

(In mark Temple not destroyed, and in Matthew temple is destroyed, so how could matthew come first?)

(Remember Diagram)

Source.

Seen in Matthew and Luke

As in which form scripture was: History, Miracle, Curse

Form= Genre

In todays society form would be known as emails tweets, texts, etc.

What author does with his stuff.

What he includes or discludes

how he "tweeks" it

Said to forget about New Testament. 

Said only Luke should be in NT

Was first one who made a list of what should be in the bible. 

Its not our fault its evil sources

Everything will happen soon

Less responsibility 

View as in "everything happens for a reason"

Story with underlining meaning.

"like a story that has a meaning or a morale"

jesus is Mesiah!

Wrote to Jewish Christians

jesus is no threat 

Writing to Gentiles

Very fast paced

page turner

everything happening in first 10 chapters

10 chapters= one year

conflict to conflict

Ending is different- just ends

ends abruptly.

either missing page.. or to be continued in your opinion, your ending

Writing to Gentiles

Jesus always praying

social concerns for poor, women, etc

Mentions Holy Spirit ALOT

Written 20 years after other gospels

Jesus is always talking about himself

No parables

no exorcisms 

no stories of jesus birth 

Signs to point to Jesus

signs also means miracles. 

the one jesus really loved

never known by name

first to see jesus come to life

saw churches as one body

with many different members

ears, eyes, nose, everythings connected

Salvation= came by faith

Tree with Branches

were all together by leaves on trees

sap= holy spirit

salvation=belief

Secret stuff

idea that god was so out there

so many layers between us and god, only way of knowing is if someone made it through layers.

secret knowledge....some knew others didn't

after jesus died and rose

message more important than jesus

Church talked about what jesus did with his sacrifice and resurrection 

empty tomb- Jesus not there

Appearance- People saw him

Disciples- were hiding and all of a sudden came out of hiding just to tell that Jesus was dead and has risen. They knew they were going to be killed if they came out, so why come out unless its true?

Early- couldn't be recent, everything earlier was better, recent=bad

Apostolic Origin- Had to have writings from apostolic

Widespread acceptance- things written about jesus must be widespread

Orthodox Theology- "right teaching" had to fit with what people already knew and believed about jesus. 

trade starting

which opens travel and communication

people started learning greek