THEMES IDENTIFIED IN SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

 MARK

-Messianic Secret

-Christology - Jesus, the Son of God

-Discipleship - the Twelve and afterwards

-Messiah as Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53

-Breaking of Accepted Religious Convention - Jesus as Lord

MATTHEW

-Jesus, Lord of the Church, the New Israel

-Judaism as Rejecting and Being Rejected by Her Maker

-Jewishness of Gospel

-God Turns to Gentiles - the Church as new Israel

-Righteousness within the Church

LUKE

-Humanity of Jesus

-‘From Jerusalem, and into all the World

-Jerusalem as place of fulfilment and triumph

-The Holy Spirit

-Renewal of Prophecy

-The Unstoppable Purpose of God

-3-fold Salvation History

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