As we begin our study in the life of Christ, let me tell you that although we will be using the Gospels as our ongoing text, they do not give us the life of Christ. They do not provide us with a detailed account of His life. The Gospels are not biographies of our Lord.

Matthew did not sit down to write a biography of the life of Christ, neither did Mark, Luke, nor John, and as a result you would not expect to find in any of the Gospels all of the events of His life.

In fact, John tells us in John 21:25, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they
should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.”

What then do we have in the Gospels? We simply have four thematic accounts of the life of Christ. That is, you have four “snap-shots” from the life of Christ, with each of them from a different point-of-view, and with each of them developing a particular theme.

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