arts and culture on Four Gospels

The passion stories take up one-fourth to one-third of the total length of the four Gospels, and biblical interpreters generally agree that the material was shaped by the church’s oral traditions prio...

In Luke’s Gospel Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal.”

Jesus appears in the Gospels as a theologian who begins with a mastery of the tradition and then reshapes it by offering a new vision centered on his own person.