The four gospels reveal the different facets of our Lord Jesus

Look at these beautiful alliterations hidden in the themes of the four gospels!

The Gospel of Matthew—the Sovereign and His Sermons

When it comes to royalty, it’s important to trace lineage.
Hence, the Gospel of Matthew begins with the genealogy of Jesus, in which He was first introduced as the Son of David.
The genealogy written in Matthew is also important because it is the only documentation left that tells us who has the claim to the throne of David, which is a picture of the throne of God.
The gospel of Matthew is also filled with many sermons that Jesus preached during His time here.
These sermons teach us about the foundations and principles of God’s Kingdom.

The Gospel of Mark—the Servant and His Service

Mark doesn’t start with a genealogy because Jesus is represented here as the divine Servant.
You don’t ask a servant for his pedigree.
The book of Mark is all about Jesus as a servant and His service to the people.
It is filled with recordings of Jesus performing miracles.
You can even feel a sense of urgency and immediacy as Jesus goes from place to place to heal and redeem people.

The Gospel of Luke—the Savior and His Salvation

In the book of Luke, Jesus is portrayed as the Savior, the Son of Man who came to save mankind.
We can see this even before His death and resurrection—when Jesus was saving and healing many as the Messiah.
God created the earth and creation, and He committed it to the stewardship of Man.
He never meant for sickness, death, sin, lack, famine, or wars to come in.
He created a perfect creation.
But Man gave up creation when he sinned, and death came into the world.
Where the first Adam failed, God sent the Second Adam—Jesus—to recover all that was lost (Rom. 5:17).

The Gospel of John—The Son of God and His Supremacy

In John, Jesus is God come down in human flesh (John 1:14).
It talks about how Jesus predicted in the gospels that the temple of Herod then would be destroyed and that not even one stone would be left on top of another (Matt. 24:2).
However, in AD70, during the siege of Jerusalem, General Titus, son of the Roman Emperor, gave specific commands to his troops not to destroy the temple.
During the fog of war, chaos, and fire, the soldiers, seeing the gold of the temple melting in between the stones, began pulling down the stones to retrieve the gold.
In the end, not one stone was left on top of another.
You can see these same stones when you go to Israel today.
We see the supremacy of the word of Jesus, the Son of God, prevailing over the commands of the son of the Roman Emperor.

Suganya