Bible Question: It may sound silly but why are the temptations of Jesus given in a different order in Matt and Luke. it's not so inportant but there must be a reason. I have done a search but no information found as yet. |
Bible Answer: Hi, Morton... The Gospels are a unique genre in literature. They aren't intended to be pure narrative, and yet they contain history. They were written as sermons to specific peoples for specific purposes. Matthew is addressed to believing Jews. Luke is addressed to believing Greeks. The Semitic mind does not look at the world quite the same way that the Western (Greek) mind does. Of the four Gospels, Luke's is the one that carefully attempts to convey chronology (Luke 1:3), in keeping with the way the Greek mind generally prefers to think of things. (The chronological account of history was a common assumption in Greek thinking -- as it is in ours -- since the time of Thucydides some 500 years before the time of Christ.) In Him, Doc |
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