Tenney, Merrill C New Testament Survey, pp 199-225 Thomas, Robert L and Gundry, Stanley N A Harmony of the Gospels, pp 26568; 302-8; 313-37 Charts appear on pages 347-49 Vos, Howard F The Life of Our Lord Even the combination of all four gospels contains only a relatively small portion of Jesus’ career (see John 21:25) But all has been recorded that faithfully and fully composes the divinely designed, biblical portrait of Christ The closing parenthesis placed here can be justi ed by the original Greek, and also makes more sense See A T Robertson, A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ, p 261 Compare the Berkeley Version, and the New International Version of this verse Travel in Samaria was usually avoided by Jews because of the religious antagonism between the Jews and the Samaritans Jesus, however, freely moved about and ministered in Samaria (e.g., John 4:4-42.) Jesus was born around or B.C It is an acknowledged fact that our present calendars are in error by a few years See A T Robertson, A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ, pp 262-67, for a discussion of this This survey manual takes the position that the unnamed feast of John 5:1 was a Passover feast A recommended sourcebook that uses the New American Standard Bible (NASB) text is Robert L Thomas and Stanley N Gundry, A Harmony of the Gospels A harmony using the American Standard Version (ASV) is A T Robertson, A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ 7 See D Edmond Hiebert, An Introduction to the New Testament, 1:160-90, for a discussion of the Synoptic Problem, which is How does one account for the likenesses and di erences among the rst three gospels? Thomas D Bernard, The Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament, p 59 5Matthew: Jesus and His Promised Kingdom The Person of Jesus Christ is the key to all history, its grand miracle, and humankind’s only hope Who is Jesus, and what did He while on earth to make all history revolve around Him? Is He the Messiah — the Christ — foretold in the Old Testament? Is He really the King of kings and Lord of lords? Those are some of the questions that Matthew wanted to answer as he wrote his record and re ections of the life of Christ The opening sentence of the gospel, which in the original Greek text has but eight words, includes four personal names: Jesus, Christ, David, Abraham This is a strong clue as to what we may expect to nd as we survey this first of the four gospels I PREPARATION FOR STUDY In Bible study it is always helpful to ... foretold in the Old Testament? Is He really the King of kings and Lord of lords? Those are some of the questions that Matthew wanted to answer as he wrote his record and re ections of the life of. .. Robertson, A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ, pp 262-67, for a discussion of this This survey manual takes the position that the unnamed feast of John 5:1 was a Passover... for the likenesses and di erences among the rst three gospels? Thomas D Bernard, The Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament, p 59 5Matthew: Jesus and His Promised Kingdom The Person of Jesus