The Four Gospels Quotes

“murder of brother by brother.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Gospel of Mark, however, stresses neither the kingly office of Christ, nor the fulfillment of ancient prophecies. In his narrative we find, for example, no genealogy of Jesus, no miraculous birth, no reference to Bethlehem, no adoration of wise men, no Sermon on the Mount, no arraignment of the Hebrew nation, no sentence passed on Jerusalem, no reference to the Lord’s right to summon angels in the garden, and no promise of a kingdom to the thief on the cross.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“publican”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Allusions are made to sixty-five Old Testament passages, forty-three are verbally quoted, a number equal to that of all the other Gospels combined. Thus Matthew is the Gospel of fulfillment.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“the donation of the land, are inseparable in the Biblical presentation of history. Moreover, both gifts are leasehold, not freehold: the Jews are chosen, the land is theirs, by grace and favour, always revocable.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“The Old Testament, it is important to grasp, is not primarily about justice as an abstract concept. It is about God’s justice, which manifests itself by God’s acts of choice.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“a book which aims at exhibiting the law, not as trampled upon but as fulfilled and developed into a higher law of promise, in which all the families of the world were to be blessed (Gen. 12:3).”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Repentance is a change of mind that is evidenced in a changed life (cf. 3:8).”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“The Sermon on the Mount, as taught by Christ and arranged by Matthew, establishes the foundational truths upon which the Kingdom of Heaven is built.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Matthew structured his Gospel narrative around five major discourses of Christ, reminiscent of the five books of Moses.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“The central claim of the election is not that God objectively favored the Jews above all other people but that he revealed himself most clearly through them.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“The Hebrew Scriptures, of which Daniel’s writings are a part, are divided into three groups known as Torah (Law), Nebi’im (Prophets), and Kethubim (Writings).”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Remember, all events in history may be important, but not all are of equal importance.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“organized the civilized world in a universal empire,”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“The exclusivism of Judaism and Christianity was itself regarded as odd and even impious in ancient times, and the refusal of Christians and Jews to worship any god other than their own led their neighbors to brand them as atheists.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“this book is intended to be neither an exhaustive commentary on the Gospels, nor a compendium of miscellaneous facts. Rather, the work is designed to be an instructional Guide—an illustrated, authoritative reference work, equally suited as a tool for personal study or as assigned reading in a formal classroom situation.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Luke by contrast wrote for a Gentile audience, so only in his Gospel are we told that “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:24).”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Matthew addressed his Gospels to the Jews, and only he, for example, “records the rending of the veil of the Temple, the earthquake and the signs that followed it, which, at the time, could hardly have had any special significance except for the Jews (Matt. 27:51-53).”22”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“God who deals with men, individually and collectively, in such a way that his will can be discerned in history.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance

“Yes, if the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus are those of a God.”
― William S. Stobb, The Four Gospels: A Guide to Their Historical Background, Characteristic Differences, and Timeless Significance