When the vast majority of people read the Bible, they start with the birth narrative in Matthew, read all the way through it, then to Mark, etc, onto the end of John. They all sound relatively similar. This is called "horizontal reading", how we read a book from start to finish. Bible scholarship, however, begins to get quite interesting very quickly through "vertical reading", a scholarly method of analyzing a single plot point of one gospel in comparison to another. Then you begin to see just how distinct these accounts truly are.
