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Synoptic Gospels

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LukeSt. Luke, detail of St. Luke Drawing the Virgin, oil on canvas by Rogier van der Weyden, 15th century; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Synoptic Gospels, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke in the New Testament, which present similar narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ. Since the 1780s the first three books of the New Testament have been called the Synoptic Gospels because they are so similar in structure, content, and wording that they can easily be set side by side to provide a synoptic comparison of their content. (The Gospel According to John has a different arrangement and offers a somewhat different perspective on Christ.) The striking similarities between the first three Gospels prompt questions regarding the actual literary relationship that exists between them. This question, called the Synoptic problem, has been elaborately studied in modern times(see also Biblical literature: New Testament literature).

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