Speaker 1: You've been reading four books about Jesus your entire life,
Speaker 1: and nobody told you the whole story. The man who
Speaker 1: wrote the most Jewish gospel in the New Testament was
Speaker 1: a government collaborator, his own people wanted dead. The man
Speaker 1: whose gospel is the most urgent, most raw account of
Speaker 1: Jesus ever written, ran away from Jesus twice. The man
Speaker 1: who wrote the most compassionate gospel never met Jesus, not once,
Speaker 1: not a single miracle, not one sermon. And the youngest,
Speaker 1: the one who wrote the deepest theology in history, was
Speaker 1: probably seventeen years old when he watched Jesus die. A traitor,
Speaker 1: a deserter, an outsider, and a teenager. Those are the
Speaker 1: four men God chose to carry the most important story
Speaker 1: in human history. And it gets stranger. The early Church
Speaker 1: almost voted one of those gospels out of the Bible entirely.
Speaker 1: There was a document circulating among the very first followers
Speaker 1: of Jesus before any gospel was written, that had no
Speaker 1: birth story, no resurrection, no cross, just his words and
Speaker 1: the two birth stories the whole world blends into one
Speaker 1: Nativity scene every December. They are not the same story,
Speaker 1: not even close. What each one is actually saying, is
Speaker 1: something the comfortable combined version has been covering up for
Speaker 1: two thousand years. This is the complete history of the
Speaker 1: Four Gospels as you have never seen it. By the
Speaker 1: end of this video, you will understand why they were written,
Speaker 1: who they were written for, and what was at stake
Speaker 1: for every man who put his name on them. You
Speaker 1: will hear what John one one actually said to a
Speaker 1: Roman citizen living under Caesar. You will find out why
Speaker 1: Jesus kept commanding people after the most spectacular miracles anyone
Speaker 1: had ever witnessed. To tell absolutely no one, Every difference
Speaker 1: between the Gospels is intentional. Every tension between them is
Speaker 1: not a flaw in the Word of God. It is
Speaker 1: the fingerprint of God before we go deeper. If something
Speaker 1: is stirring in you, that is the spirit. This is
Speaker 1: why Deep Bible Stories exists, not to give you more
Speaker 1: information about God, but to help you draw closer to Him.
Speaker 1: Full video, lessons and ebooks on all four Gospels are
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Speaker 1: back in God chose four completely disqualified men to write
Speaker 1: the story of Jesus, not humble, ordinary, disqualified, scandalously, permanently disqualified,
Speaker 1: and he chose them anyway. Matthew was a tax collector,
Speaker 1: a Jew who contracted with Rome to extract money from
Speaker 1: his own people. His name was spoken with contempt in
Speaker 1: every synagogue. He was not simply a sinner, he was
Speaker 1: a traitor, and God chose him to write the most
Speaker 1: Jewish gospel in the New Testament, the one that makes
Speaker 1: the most systematic legal case for Jesus as Israel's promised king.
Speaker 1: God took the man his people most despised and made
Speaker 1: him their most articulate defender. The traitor became the witness
Speaker 1: that is not irony, that is resurrection logic. Mark is
Speaker 1: widely believed to be the young man in Gathsemone who
Speaker 1: fled naked into the darkness the night Jesus was arrested.
Speaker 1: He later abandoned Paul on the first missionary journey, a
Speaker 1: deserter twice. Luke never met Jesus, a Greek physician who
Speaker 1: researched and compiled testimony, and John was almost certainly a
Speaker 1: teenager at the crucifixion seventeen years old, watching his Lord die.
Speaker 1: God did not choose the qualified, He qualified the chosen.
Speaker 1: If that does not speak to your own disqualifytions, nothing will.
Speaker 1: The men who wrote these gospels were not in comfortable studies.
Speaker 1: They were writing under threat of death in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of catastrophe for communities, asking the most desperate human question,
Speaker 1: where is God in all of this? In sixty four
Speaker 1: A d Nero blamed Christians for the burning of Rome.
Speaker 1: Men and women were arrested, tortured, thrown to wild animals,
Speaker 1: and some Nero had them set on fire, used as
Speaker 1: living torches to light his garden parties at night. Peter
Speaker 1: was crucified upside down. Paul was beheaded. That is the
Speaker 1: world in which Mark was written. Six years later, Rome
Speaker 1: destroyed Jerusalem, the temple burned, over a million people died.
Speaker 1: Matthew wrote his Gospel in the silence that followed for survivors,
Speaker 1: asking whether God had abandoned them entirely. When you read
Speaker 1: the Gospels knowing this, they sto not being ancient religious texts.
Speaker 1: They become letters written by people who may not have
Speaker 1: survived to see them, delivered written in blood, preserved by grace.
Speaker 1: There is a pattern in Mark's Gospel. Most pastor's skip
Speaker 1: because it is too uncomfortable to explain. Scholars call it
Speaker 1: the Messianic secret. Jesus heals someone, a leper, a paralyzed man,
Speaker 1: a twelve year old girl raised from the dead, and
Speaker 1: then he says tell no one. In Mark five, p.
Speaker 1: Forty three, after the most spectacular miracle a human being
Speaker 1: could witness, he strictly charged them that no one should
Speaker 1: know this. Why this is not the behavior of someone
Speaker 1: building a platform, cultivating an audience, monetizing a miracle. This
Speaker 1: is the opposite of everything the religious influence a playbook
Speaker 1: has ever recommended. The first century world wanted a warrior king,
Speaker 1: a new David, who would drive Rome out by force.
Speaker 1: Every time time someone tried to make Jesus king, he withdrew.
Speaker 1: He refused to be reduced to what people wanted from him.
Speaker 1: Only at the cross, when the man who raised the
Speaker 1: dead hung broken between two criminals, did a Roman soldier
Speaker 1: say what the whole gospel had been building to? Truly,
Speaker 1: this man was the son of God. The confession that
Speaker 1: mattered most came from the most unlikely mouth at the
Speaker 1: bottom of everything, not the Messiah who dazzles. The one
Speaker 1: who descends the church is still struggling to accept him
Speaker 1: on those terms. Reading Matthew without knowing what happened to
Speaker 1: the Jewish world is like reading a letter to a
Speaker 1: grief stricken widow without knowing her husband just died. The
Speaker 1: words make surface sense, the full weight is lost. Matthew
Speaker 1: wrote after Rome destroyed Jerusalem. His readers were survivors of
Speaker 1: a theological catastrophe. The temple was gone, the priesthood was gone.
Speaker 1: And the question driving every page was not tell me
Speaker 1: about Jesus, and it was did God break his covenant?
Speaker 1: Were we wrong about everything? His answer is not comfort first,
Speaker 1: it is evidence. He opens with a genealogy of forty
Speaker 1: two generations to a modern reader boring to a first
Speaker 1: century Jewish survivor, a life raft. The line did not break.
Speaker 1: Then he deploys a formula fourteen times this happened to
Speaker 1: fulfill what was spoken through the prophet. He is not
Speaker 1: decorating his story with scripture references. He is building a
Speaker 1: legal case. This was planned. God did not abandon you.
Speaker 1: He was working. If your world has ever collapsed around you,
Speaker 1: Matthew was written for you, not for the comfortable. For
Speaker 1: the survivors. Luke's Gospel is the most socially radical document
Speaker 1: in the New Testament. Not radical in the trendy sense,
Speaker 1: radical in the original Latin sense. Going to the route
Speaker 1: and what it cuts to the root of is something
Speaker 1: most religious institutions have a vested interest in leaving undisturbed.
Speaker 1: In Luke, the birth of Jesus is announced not to
Speaker 1: scholars or priests, but to shepherds, men whose testimony was
Speaker 1: not legally valid in a court of law. The lowest
Speaker 1: status workers in the region. Heaven chose them first. That
Speaker 1: is not a detail. That is the architecture of everything
Speaker 1: that follows. The people Luke elevates as primary carriers of
Speaker 1: divine revelation are consistently the ones religion had already written off. Women, Samaritans, lepers,
Speaker 1: tax collectors, the poor, the foreign I want to be
Speaker 1: honest here. The parable of the good Samaritan is usually
Speaker 1: preached as inspiration. We assume we are the Samaritan, but
Speaker 1: most of us, if we are honest, have been the priest.
Speaker 1: We have seen someone on the side of the road
Speaker 1: and we crossed to the other side, not because we
Speaker 1: were evil, because we were busy. Luke does not let
Speaker 1: us stay in the comfortable version of this story. If
Speaker 1: God consistently shows up first among the people, religion overlooked,
Speaker 1: whose witness are we dismissing today that heaven has already
Speaker 1: validated In the beginning was the word, and the word
Speaker 1: was with God, and the word was God. You have
Speaker 1: heard this so many times its strangeness has worn smooth.
Speaker 1: Read it as a first century Roman citizen, and what
Speaker 1: you find is not devotional poetry. It is a declaration
Speaker 1: of war. Augustus Caesar was called the Son of God
Speaker 1: in official inscriptions across the Empire. His birth was celebrated
Speaker 1: as the beginning of the Gospel Euangelian. The same Greek
Speaker 1: word Caesar was called Savior of the world. Lord. Imperial
Speaker 1: theology was on every coin, every temple, every monument inescapable.
Speaker 1: When John wrote in the beginning was the word, every
Speaker 1: Roman reader knew exactly what he was doing. Caesar is
Speaker 1: not the son of God. Caesar is not the Savior.
Speaker 1: Caesar is not laud There is another. And those three
Speaker 1: words could get you killed. John wrote them anyway, two
Speaker 1: thousand years later. Every time those words are read aloud,
Speaker 1: the same claim is made against every Counterfeit Lord that
Speaker 1: demands ultimate allegiance. It has never stopped being radical. We
Speaker 1: have simply stopped hearing it that way. Before any gospel
Speaker 1: was written, scholars believe a collection of Jesus's sayings was
Speaker 1: already circulating among his earliest followers. They call it Q,
Speaker 1: from the German Quell, meaning source. No copy has ever
Speaker 1: been found, but its probable contents can be reconstructed from
Speaker 1: material Matthew and Luke share that is absent in Mark
Speaker 1: roughly two hundred and thirty five verses, the Beatitudes, the
Speaker 1: Lord's prayer, Love your enemies, do not be anxious. What
Speaker 1: Q apparently did not contain No birth story, no crucifixion,
Speaker 1: no resurrection. The earliest layer of Jesus tradition may have
Speaker 1: been nothing but his words. That means the very first
Speaker 1: communities gathered around a voice before they gathered around a theology.
Speaker 1: They preserved what he said, before they codified what he
Speaker 1: did at Calvary. Every time you read the Sermon on
Speaker 1: the Mount, you are hearing the oldest layer of testimony
Speaker 1: to who Jesus was. Not interpreted, not theologized, just the words,
Speaker 1: doing what they were always doing, changing people. Every December,
Speaker 1: billions arrange the same Nativity scene, Shepherd's wise men, the Star,
Speaker 1: the Manger, beautiful Beloved, and a harmonization of two accounts
Speaker 1: that were never meant to be harmonized. In Matthew, the
Speaker 1: birth is surrounded by terror. A king orders the massacre
Speaker 1: of every male child under two. In Bethlehem, the family
Speaker 1: flees to Egypt in the night. They are refugees, sheltering
Speaker 1: from a government that wants their child dead. The sound
Speaker 1: in Matthew Chapter two is not angels singing, It is
Speaker 1: mother's weeping. Matthew is telling his post Jerusalem survivors. God
Speaker 1: did not wait for the world to be ready. He
Speaker 1: arrived in the middle of devastation, the same kind you
Speaker 1: are living in now. In Luke, shepherds received the announcement
Speaker 1: with joy, and the Lord of everything is found sleeping
Speaker 1: in a feeding trough, not a cradle, not a palace,
Speaker 1: a feeding trough. Luke is showing you a God who
Speaker 1: enters the world at the bottom, not because he had
Speaker 1: no choice, but because that is where he chose to be.
Speaker 1: Is the God revealed in these two accounts some one
Speaker 1: you actually know, or have you been worshiping a Christmas card?
Speaker 1: The Gospel that came closest to being excluded from the
Speaker 1: Bible was John. Not because it's said too little, because
Speaker 1: it said too much. A movement called Gnosticism, which believed
Speaker 1: matter was evil, the body of prison and salvation meant
Speaker 1: escaping the physical, loved John's gospel. They used its cosmic
Speaker 1: language about the divine word to argue that Jesus never
Speaker 1: truly became human, that the incarnation was an appearance, that
Speaker 1: the cross was not real suffering because the divine Christ
Speaker 1: had no actual body to suffer. In. A group called
Speaker 1: the Allogoy rejected John entirely. There was a real debate
Speaker 1: in real councils about whether it belonged in the Bible
Speaker 1: at all. The Church kept it because the same gospel
Speaker 1: gnostics quoted to deny Jesus's humanity contains the most emphatic
Speaker 1: affirmations of it. John one fourteen does not say the
Speaker 1: word appeared to become flesh. It says the word became flesh.
Speaker 1: And in John eleven, Jesus does not perform a detached
Speaker 1: soft in resurrection. He stands at the tomb and he weeps.
Speaker 1: God weeps. God is not afraid of matter. He did
Speaker 1: not send a representative. He came himself. That truth, pressed tested,
Speaker 1: nearly lost, is the one John gave his life to preserve.
Speaker 1: All four Gospels arrive at the same hill, and when
Speaker 1: they do, each writer sees something the others leave in silence.
Speaker 1: In Mark, Jesus dies crying, my God, My God, why
Speaker 1: have you forsaken me? Not triumphant, desolate. Mark's cross is
Speaker 1: for the person who feels completely abandoned right now and
Speaker 1: is too exhausted to say it out loud. Jesus was
Speaker 1: there first. He knows that cry. He made it. In Luke,
Speaker 1: Jesus speaks three times from the cross, every word for
Speaker 1: someone else, forgive them to day you will be with
Speaker 1: me in Paradise. Father, into your hands. The last person
Speaker 1: Jesus saved was a convicted criminal with no time left
Speaker 1: to prove anything. Just a request, remember me. Jesus said, yes.
Speaker 1: That is Luke's Cross. In Matthew, when Jesus dies, the
Speaker 1: earth shakes, rock split, tombs burst open. The temple veil
Speaker 1: tears from top to bottom, not from the bottom up,
Speaker 1: as a human hand would tear it from the top.
Speaker 1: God reached down. The barrier between heaven and humanity was
Speaker 1: not removed by human effort. It was torn open by
Speaker 1: God himself. In John, Jesus does not cry out, he
Speaker 1: declares it is finished tetelustie, a debt paid in full.
Speaker 1: John's cross is for every one who needs to hear
Speaker 1: one more time, finished, done paid, not pending, four angles,
Speaker 1: one infinite event across, still doing its work in you
Speaker 1: right now, bother. We came into this video carrying assumptions
Speaker 1: that we already knew these books, that the differences were
Speaker 1: problems to explain away, and you dismantled those assumptions gently,
Speaker 1: because now we see that every tension, every silence, every
Speaker 1: difference is not a crack in the foundation. It is
Speaker 1: a window, and through every window is more of you.
Speaker 1: We pray for everyone who came carrying grief, the grief
Speaker 1: of watching everything you built your life on fall apart.
Speaker 1: The answer is Matthew, the line did not break, The
Speaker 1: covenant is intact. He is still here. We pray for
Speaker 1: everyone who feels too disqualified, too much like Matthew the traitor,
Speaker 1: too much like Mark who ran. The answer is Luke.
Speaker 1: The first witnesses were the one's religion had already dismissed.
Speaker 1: God is still in the habit of choosing the unqualified
Speaker 1: and qualifying them by His presence. We pray for everyone
Speaker 1: who feels abandoned, the answer is Mark, Jesus made that
Speaker 1: cry before you did. And for everyone who just needs
Speaker 1: to hear it one more time, the answer is jo
Speaker 1: it is finished. Lord, give us a hunger for the
Speaker 1: whole Jesus not the safe harmonized Christmas card version, the dangerous,
Speaker 1: descending cross bearing, tomb breaking Empire, confronting outcast, welcoming son
Speaker 1: of God who refused to be what religion wanted and
Speaker 1: chose instead to be what humanity actually needed. In the
Speaker 1: name of the one who was, and is and is
Speaker 1: to come, Jesus Christ, the Living Word. Amen. If something
Speaker 1: opened in you to day, do not let it stop. Here.
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