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Explain why the gospel authors at times differ from each other in their accounts.
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They were written from different perspectives, to different audiences and with different purposes.
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Different writers have different idea, perspective, interest, audiences and focus.
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Each author wrote to a certain group of people with different beliefs and ethnicities. Each author wrote in the language of the person they were talking to, so they would have an understanding of what they were teaching as well as their portrait of Jesus in their audience’s understanding.
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Different perspectives, different audiences, different foci.
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each author was writing to different audiences even of different ethnicity, as well as with a different perspective to share about Jesus