Favorite of the 4 Gospels

[Alabama_Indy10]

Which of the 4 gospels is your favorite? Why?

[TPIG]

Matthew. The Sermon on the Mount is a truly beautiful lesson on how to live a life in the image of Christ.

[RFayette]

John, by far.  I love its focus on the deity of Christ and the promise of salvation for all who simply believe.

[Blue3]

Last year I read all 4 gospels within a week. I actually enjoyed Matthew a lot more than I thought I would, especially the elaborations on Jesus's teachings.

I like some verses from John (though that's a very different gospel from the others), and Luke (my second choice), but overall Matthew is better than both of those in telling the whole story, and Mark is basically  just Matthew with some of it cut out.

I've been meaning to re-read to finish my personal project, but right now I'd rank them:
1. Matthew
2. Luke
3. John
4. Mark (really just abbreviated Matthew, but technically easier to read than John)

[Santander]

Donald

[Small L]

I like John because of its uniqueness. It's the one I've read the least though.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

In language, Mark, in content, John.  Every Christmas and Easter, however, we read from Luke, so it kind of has some significance to me in that regard.

[Enduro]

I love all of them, but being the first gospel I remember studying myself, John has a special place in my heart.

[SingingAnalyst]

Mark, because it is short and to the point.

[The Mikado]

Matthew, easily. As a non-Christian coming at this from a secular Jewish perspective, Matthew at least tries to interact with my criticism, like when Jesus gets into the argument with the Pharisees about whether the Messiah is the heir of David or the heir of God. He does that really obtuse technicality-laden argument that the Messiah can't be the son of and inferior to David because the Psalms refer to the Messiah as "My Lord" and why would David refer to his own heir as "My Lord?"

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I don't really buy that argument because every single Messianic prediction in the Hebrew Bible is about reestablishing the Davidic monarchy, not about the salvation of the entire human race, but at least Jesus is interfacing with the very obvious point that he is not what a Messiah is supposed to be.

[Mr. Reactionary]

John

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

John. Those famous opening verses are great and it's very interesting to see the original Greek version, where it doesn't explicitly mention "In THE beginning" like in English (it excludes the word "the"), which makes it fun to theorize about how John viewed the universe/time.

[LastMcGovernite]

Luke. As a historian, I appreciate how grounded his gospel is. Furthermore, women have a great deal more agency and a fuller role to play in the gospel story.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Mark by far. Fascinating text.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

John. Those famous opening verses are great and it's very interesting to see the original Greek version, where it doesn't explicitly mention "In THE beginning" like in English (it excludes the word "the"), which makes it fun to theorize about how John viewed the universe/time.

Interesting.  In that respect it follows the wording of the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation of the Book of Genesis used at the time.   And the Hebrew itself as it has come down to us does not seem to have the definite article, based on lack of a vowel following the preposition "b" ("in"), though this is also the case with many words in the passage where one might expect it based on the use of articles in modern English.


http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/gen1.pdf

[Del Tachi]

John, by far.  I love its focus on the deity of Christ and the promise of salvation for all who simply believe.