===Originea Evangheliilor canonice===
În evangheliile lor, Matei, Marcu şi Luca includ multe pasaje similare ale vieţii lui Iisus, unele fiind chiar identice. Ioan, pe de altă parte, se exprimă într-un stil diferit şi relatează aceleaşi evenimente în alt mod, fiind adesea plin de mesaje teologice şi filozofice.
Among the GospelsParalelele dintre primele trei Evanghelii sunt atât de grăitoare, Matthewîncât mulţi învăţaţi au investigat relaţia dintre ele. Pentru a le putea studia mai atent, Markgermanul JJ Griesbach (1776) a aranjat aceste trei Evanghelii într-un tabel pe trei coloane, and Luke include many of the same passages in the life of Jesus and sometimes use identical or very similar wordingnumit sinoptic. JohnCa rezultat, on the other handEvangheliile celor trei, expresses itself in a different style and relates the same incidents in Matei, Marcu şi Luca au fost ajuns să fie cunoscute sub denumirea de Evanghelii sinoptice, iar problema motivului similarităţii, şi a different wayrelaţiilor dintre aceste Evanghelii în general, and is often full of more encompassing theological and philosophical messageseste cunoscută ca problemă sinoptică.
The parallels between the first three Gospels are so telling that many scholars have investigated the relationship between them. In order to study them more closely, German scholar JJ Griesbach (1776) arranged the first three gospels in a three-column table called a synopsis. As a result, the Matthew, Mark, and Luke have come to be known as the synoptic Gospels, and the question of the reason for this similarity, and the relationship between these Gospels more generally, is known as the synoptic problem.
Many solutions to the synoptic problem have been proposed, but the dominant view is that Mark is the first Gospel, with Matthew and Luke borrowing passages both from that Gospel and from another, lost source, known as Q. This view is known as the "Two Source" hypothesis. The "Four Source" hypothesis includes two other sources M and L.