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Explain why the gospel authors at times differ from each other in their accounts.
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The 4 Gospels were written by 4 different people and each person had their own perspective.
Each writer had different readers in mind.
Each writer had a different purpose.
Each gospel writer presented Jesus in a particular way that was of interest to his particular audience. -
Each author was an individual. Each had his own special interest, his own field of expertise, his own way of seeing who Jesus was and how He carried out His ministry.
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They were influenced by their own lives through a particular perspective, their personal experiences with Jesus-more intimate or distance through time and place and by how they came about the knowledge that they wrote about in their gospel.
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It is to talk to different audiences. God knew the audience He needed to reach in the Bible to tell the news of Jesus.
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The Gospel Writer’s wrote to different audiences For instance the Jews, Romans, Greeks and the rest of the world. For this reason they presented Jesus from different points of view to each audiences and to future audiences.