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Explain why the authors at times differ from each other in their accounts.
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Each writer had a different heritage, background, perspective and purpose for writing their account of Jesus and His life. They were writing to different audiences so pointed out views that would be of interest to those audiences.
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Different people see things differently.
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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.
