The Gospels

I have been making my way through my reading list in the Bible over the last many months. Not long ago, I started on the Gospels, and today I finished the last one.

I think that Luke and Mark were the ones I liked the best - maybe Luke a little more than Mark. Third place was Matthew. I liked John the least - my unitarian streak I guess.

That being said, some of my favorite Gospel quotes are from John: Where are you going? (Quo vadis?) and What is truth? (Quid est veritas?). I am also partial to John's parable of the vines and the branches, or at least an interpretation of it I once read.

I had read or heard most of the Gospels in parts here and there, but had never sat down and read them in full before. I had some surpirses. First, they move pretty quickly and are not detailed stories following a tight time line. Second, Jesus is still a mystery to me in many ways - almost as much as before I read them this time. They were of course written in a different time - originally by hand no less. Maybe that explains how they seemed to me, well except for the remaining mystery perhaps.

That last part will require some thought on my part to resolve I suppose. Maybe that is as it should be.

If you have not read the Gospels all the way throught, give it a try and see what you think.