 Good morning and welcome to BC103, a New Testament survey. Last class we covered on the introduction to the New Testament and we studied on the various empire and also at the end of last session we discussed about sharing the timeline of the New Testament. I request all the students to take a look at the timeline starting from the birth of Jesus Christ to the writing of the book of Revelation. I request you all to please take a screenshot of the screen so that you all can look into it and know the different events that took place different time and what we need to keep in mind as we look into the timeline is these dates the year that has been mentioned are approximate and different colors may code different dates but what we need to look at is these are the real events that took place okay so with that we will move on to the introduction to the synoptic gospels now what are the synoptic gospels what are the synoptic gospels anyone from the class online you all can chat let me look at your chat if you'll have updated anything anyone from the session class so the first three gospels that is Matthew, Mark and Luke are called as synoptic gospel why are they called synoptic because all these three gospels see together or has a common view in Greek synoptic synoptic means something that has a common view seeing together that's why it is called as synoptic gospel whereas the gospel of John is different from the first three gospels so Matthew, Mark and Luke covered the same events in the life of Jesus and most of them focus on the ministry of Jesus in the area of Galilee so they are more or less in the same order nearly 90% of Mark's the gospel of Mark's content is found in the gospel of Matthew and 50% the gospel of Mark appears in the gospel of Luke and all of the parables of Christ are found in the synoptic gospels that is Matthew, Mark and Luke and the gospel of John contains no parables gospel of John has no parables so this these gospels are written over the course of almost a century after the death of Jesus all four gospels okay though they tell the same story reflect very different idea and concern so all four people have different perspective though they look but they have a different perspective so they write the story again and again from their point of view so it was a period of 40 years separates the death of Jesus from writing of the first gospel so the history tells us little direct evidence about the events of this period but it suggests the early Christians were engaged in one of the basic human activity what was the basic human activity in those days back then it's storytelling so whatever they went through whatever they saw you know they started telling stories so what we see here in the book of all these synoptic gospels and in the gospel of John the story has been told and retold told and retold you see the power of word the word of mouth spread that's how the gospel was carried out in those days so it appears between the death of Jesus and the writing of the first gospel of Mark till then the story was told and retold and they also shared the memories by the word of mouth and that carried power and this communication of the word of mouth is called as the oral tradition those days okay so they included telling the stories of Jesus miracles healings and the parables and the teachings that he thought and also about his death and then the resurrection the events even eventually the stories whatever they started hearing some of the scribes or scholars started to write down so the first written document probably account about the death of Jesus and the collection of a saying in this teaching were written down so the gospels were very particular type of a literature and they are not the biographies but then they are the real stories that happen has been written handwritten by certain people who witnessed Jesus so each of these four gospel depicts Jesus in a different way and they report and reflect the past experience or the circumstance of the author communities they lived in so despite the difference all four gospel contains the passion narrative and the central story of Jesus suffering and his death so with that let's move on to the next slide do we have certain questions in our mind about why four gospel have you any time thought why four gospels are included in the bible why this number why why not just one gospel which talks about all these stories have you any time thought why just four why not many there were many people who witnessed isn't it there were 12 disciples i'm sure 12 disciples would have tried to write something of from their point of view or why just one why not many so have you thought about it any time let's look in what this number four has what significance okay so does this number four have any significance so the number four is sometime referred to as the number of earth or the number of creation so when we say that why do we say that do we see when we look around when we look at the weather we see there are four seasons what are the four seasons yes summer winter spring and fall four seasons there are four principal directions what are the four principal directions north south east and west and there are four ancient elements what are the four ancient elements earth hair fire water so in addition we can talk about the four corners of the earth the four winds that the scripture talks about okay let's see the second type we see here is the number four is seen in the following way the four streams coming out of one in the book of Genesis can we turn to Genesis chapter 2 verse 10 Genesis chapter 2 verse 10 I request the online students also to turn so that we can be interactive in our session to keep our session interactive can I request only to turn to Genesis chapter 2 verse 10 let me put the description up can anyone read please do we have an extra mic okay for now you all can read in the meanwhile Anand you can give them a mind please yes whoever's taken please read loud yes now a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from there it parted and became four river heads we all just see in the book of Exodus chapter 26 31 to 32 the four pillars holding up the veil in the tabernacle it says you shall make a veil oven of blue purple scarlet thread and a fine oven linen it shall be oven with an artistic design of cherubip you shall hang it upon the four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold their hooks shall be gold upon four sockets of silver so what we see here the veil was a symbol of Christ's body or the flesh now how do you know the veil was a symbol of Christ's body or its flesh we see that in the book of Hebrew 10 verse 20 okay because we have less time there are few scriptures I will read and few I will allow me all to okay so here we see that in Hebrew 10 it talks about it compares the veil as a symbol of Christ's body it says therefore brethren having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he consecrated for us through the veil that is his flesh and also what we see here is the four gospels are the four pillars that are called Christ as we know him according to the flesh or the earthly Christ so the book of Acts also presents Christ in his risen and exalted state where we where we see Christ according to the spirit or the heavenly Christ in his bodily form on earth okay so why do the different account or why do we have let me go to the next question the different view from the different accounts about Jesus why that's because the four accounts given to us has a different picture of Jesus Christ on the earthly ministry because in some way the accountants given us as much insight in the author's perspective of Christ so there are no two people will look at anything and have the same perspective they would be certain different in the way they look at so as an individual we often affect our impression of things so in order to give us a well rounded view of Christ we see that God has taken the four distinctly different individuals and given them different view of Jesus so in these four gospels we see that we can we can find that find that Jesus in the earthly walk and how we can appreciate him in his fullness nature isn't that beautiful like four people having viewing Jesus in the different views from their perspective from the way they could understand Jesus okay so what are the four distinct pictures that the gospel give us about Jesus what are the four distinct pictures that the four gospel give us about Jesus Christ so as we look into each gospel each one have a significant story to tell about Jesus just like a precious diamond should be studied from different angle and different facets so that we can determine the true value of that diamond so we must see Christ through the eyes of the four observers of Jesus so the following are the few ways in which you know the four gospel show us Jesus as a son of the living god so the first one let me see if I have put them okay so let's study them through this synoptic problem been unfolded through the four books okay I've listed down so as we discuss this chart covers everything okay so we look at them so throughout the Old Testament we see the pro four prophetic stream now what are the four prophetic stream when we look at the Old Testament there are about 300 different prophecies regarding the coming of Messiah and all these can be divided into four principle of the of the picture of the coming one so the first one I would like to share is behold your king behold your king these are the eight points that we would be sharing in today's class that is the four prophetic stream four tabernacle color four faces of the cherubim four genealogy four Old Testament offers four aspects of a sonship four different audience and four evangelists different evangelists okay so but when we study all that all that is covered here where I have given the comparison from the gospel of matthew mark luke and john put under one chart well under the four prophetic stream we see that it says behold your king one of the prophetic word talks about in the Old Testament Zechariah chapter nine verse nine he says behold your king here when we see in the book of Zechariah nine chapter nine verse nine reads as rejoice greatly oh daughter of Zion shout oh daughter of Jerusalem behold your king is coming to you what does he say behold your king is coming to you he is just and having salvation lowly and riding on a donkey a cold the full of a foul of a donkey and the same thing from the New Testament from the gospel of John chapter 19 verse 14 to 16 a request all to turn to gospel of John chapter 19 verse 14 to 16 so we read it as now it was the preparation day of the Passover and about the sixth hour and he said to the Jews behold your king can you see that comparison word behold your king but they cried out away with him away with him crucify him and Pilate said to him to them shall I crucify your king the chief priest answered we have no king but Caesar then he delivered him to them to be crucified then they took Jesus and led him away so yesterday's session we discussed of some of the leaders the political leaders you see in this verse we see the high priest saying something very important he's saying who's our king we don't have any other king and he's giving the kingship to Caesar the Roman authority so the high priest has a word to say in the sanhedrin we read that right 17 members along with the high priest and the high priest has certain authority so with that authority the high priest is looking at Jesus and this is the assembly that is gathered in the sanhedrin where a council is set the 17 members and there the high priest is saying sucking there's no king Caesar is our king so crucify him so with certain authority in his hand he's saying so these were the leaders those days at the time okay so whatever we studied yesterday is setting up a stage for us to understand the New Testament gospel okay so now do you know what a sanhedrin what who are these 70 members were they're part of them and what leadership authority does the high priest have the authority that he hold them and then we see Matthew's the gospel that focuses on Jesus as the king and as his kingdom so it is in his gospel we see that Jesus goes up on a mountain in a kingly manner and he sits down and gives the laws of his kingdom so in this genealogy he also traces Jesus lineage to the king David okay the next we see under the prophetic strain is behold my servant behold my servant so the comparison from the Old Testament is Zechariah chapter 3 verse 8 I request you all to please make a note all these are very important just make a note okay behold my servant the Old Testament reference for this would be Zechariah chapter 3 verse 8 and in the New Testament yeah and also there's another Old Testament reference Isaiah 42 verse 1 so we see in Isaiah 42 verse 1 behold my servant whom I uphold my elect one in home my soul delights I have put my spirit upon him he will bring food justice to the Gentiles sorry so what we see the Mark's gospel the view of Jesus as a servant of the Lord so Mark views Jesus as a servant of the Lord so in Mark's gospel Jesus has no genealogy in Matthew you see there's a genealogy it goes back to Abraham then looking David and then to Jesus but in the gospel of Mark there is no genealogy why why there's no genealogy in the gospel of Mark why Mark didn't think of Jesus having a genealogy what do you think yeah each one have a different perspective so we need to understand what was the perspective of Mark the perspective of Mark was Jesus being the servant so no one are bothered of having a genealogy of a servant isn't it he's not worried so what he says is there's no spectacular birth or a heavenly coil so he doesn't record any of these things he just writes throughout the book you see Jesus has a doer Jesus is a doer is a hard worker is a man of action the gospel of Mark this is the perspective that Mark is portraying Jesus has okay now the third point we see under the four prophetic stream we are still covering on the first point okay the third point is behold the man the first point we saw behold your king and we compared we spoke about the gospel of Matthew the second point we discussed on behold my servant and we discussed about the gospel of Mark the third one we are saying behold the man the Old Testament reference for this is Zechariah chapter 6 verse 12 can I request someone to please read 12 to 30 Zechariah chapter 6 verse 12 to 13 I think all of us can take a turn from his place he shall branch out and he shall build the temple of the Lord yes he shall build the temple of the Lord he shall bear the glory and shall set and rule of his throne so he shall be a priest of his throne and the council of peace shall be between them both thank you can one of us turn to gospel of John chapter 19 verse 5 John chapter 19 verse 5 Shriratha would you like to read thank you so John 19 fire says Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe and Pilate said to them behold the man so Luke's gospel focuses on the humanity of Jesus and he also presents the true man so the key title of this gospel in reference to Jesus is as the son of man Luke praises Christ's genealogy back to the first man that is Adam so there is a genealogy of Jesus in the gospel of Luke and he traces to the first man that's the Adam now the fourth point here under the prophetic stream is behold your God behold your God the Old Testament reference for this is the book of Isaiah chapter 40 verse 9 Rin would you like to read book of Isaiah chapter 40 verse 9 O Zion you who bring good tidings get up into the high mountain O Jerusalem you who bring good tidings lift up your voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say to the cities of Judah behold your God thank you so it says O Zion you bring good tidings get up into the high mountain O Jerusalem you who bring good tidings lift up your eyes with strength lift it up be not afraid say to the cities of Judah behold your God we see the gospel of John the gospel of John focuses more on the deity of Jesus he presents Jesus as the son of God from the very beginning of the verse 1 he starts the gospel saying in the beginning the word was God he starts the word the first very first verse itself in the beginning with God so his genealogy starts with God himself and with Jesus pre-existent union with the eternal so John places a very great deal or a great emphasis on Jesus relationship with the father so with that we will move on to the second point what is the second point four tabernacle colors four tabernacle colors so the four colors that we used in the tabernacle let me change the slide with the four tabernacle colors can we see this is inside the tabernacle the inner coat what we see in the inner coat on the left side we see menorah the seven lamb stand on the right side we see the showbread 12 loaves of the showbread stand showbread okay and in the between in the middle we see the incense altar okay and behind the incense altar we see there's a veil that's separating the holy of holies and the inner coat now the veil consists of four colors this is the veil that that's in the book of Hebrew that denote this veil is compared to the body of Christ that we just studied few minutes before okay so this veil has four colors let's look into what what does these four colors used in the veil denotes which is in the tabernacle of Moses it points out to Jesus okay points out to Jesus in Exodus chapter 26 verse 31 and 32 it talks about the four streams of these color okay just let's read you shall make a veil oven of blue i'm reading from the book of Exodus chapter 26 verse 31 and 32 i'll just put the scriptures Exodus 26 verse 31 to 32 okay i'll read it you shall make a veil oven of blue purple and scarlet red and fine oven linen it shall be oven with an artistic design of cherubim you shall hang it upon the four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold there hook shall be gold upon four sockets of silver now what are these four colors talks about can you see the four colors in that veil the first is purple that the purple denotes a kingly color and speaks about royalty Matthew in the gospel of Jesus it it talks about the kingly splendor and then the second color we talk about scarlet scarlet is the color of blood and it speaks about pouring out one's life in humble service and suffering so mark is the gospel that he talks about Jesus servanthood Jesus as a slave as a servant okay the third color fine linen that is white okay the fine linen was bleached white in the sun and it speaks about the spotless man who lived a perfect life to become a sin bearer so Luke is the gospel of Jesus which shows a perfect humanity he was the perfect man who can sacrifice his life to redeem the mankind the fourth color is blue the fourth color is blue denotes the heavenly color and speaks about Jesus as a lord of heaven so John represents to us Jesus as the heavenly manna who came down from heaven John chapter one verse 14 says the word in John chapter one it's a chapter one verse one talks about the word in the beginning the word was God and in 14 the same chapter verse 14 says the word became flesh and dwelt among us the heavenly God who became a man and dwelt among us it talks about God the word being God Jesus been God the relationship between Jesus and the father okay now with that we will move on to the next slide okay before I could move on to the next slide what we see here is the tabernacle during the time of Moses this is how the 12 tribes located in middle was the tabernacle you see the four directions north south east west all the 12 tribes were settled this way whichever place they moved and they settled they settled this way north south east and west and each tribe were aligned this way can you see that and in center one where you see the smoke I mean that is not a smoke that is the glory of God was present on the tabernacle so that point is a tabernacle and around the tabernacle can you see one two and three four that those where the Levites was serving in the tabernacle they lived there okay and then surrounded them are the 12 tribes you got it can you see that okay done now next okay we'll come back to this picture we will go back here okay the next point is four faces of the cherubim what is that four faces of the cherubim now in the book of Ezekiel chapter one verse 5 to 11 I request all to please turn to book of Ezekiel chapter one verse 5 to 11 can I request Nina if you can read also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures and this was their appearance there they had the likeness of a man each one had four faces and each one had four wings their legs were straight and the soles of their feet were like the soles of cow's feet they sparkle like like the color of burnished bronze the hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides and each of the four had faces and wings their wings touched one another the creatures did not turn when they went but Nina can uh sorry can we read verse 10 and 11 okay 11 first part okay that's where the face is still there you can read verse 10 as for the likeness of their faces each had the face of a man each of the four had the faces face of a lion on the right side each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side and each of the four had the face of an eagle thus were their faces yeah thank you yeah you can read in detail in Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 5 to 11 but the point that we would like to discuss here on is on verse 10 and the first point of verse 11 so as we see the four creatures face that is the face of a um the face of a lion the face of an ox the face of an eagle and the face of a man can we see that here these are the four living creatures that has been discussed in the book of Ezekiel and also in the book of revelation chapter 5 okay so the lion what does it denote why are these four living creatures been noted here what is Ezekiel trying to point out so the lion the lion with its kingly crown is referred as the king of beast so the book the gospel of matthew shows us Jesus as the lion the tribe of Judah we see that in the book of revelation is chapter 5 verse 5 and why hawks anyone from the class why ox what does ox denotes servant right so the ox was used in those days culture we need to study this with the background the culture the culture those days ox was known as the beast of burden ox was used to carry the heavy load heavy load upon it it's the beast of burden and the symbol of ox is the work one is slogging working hard okay so Jesus is a burden bearer who's presented in the gospel of mark the third point here we would like to discuss is the man what does man denotes anyone from the class what does man denotes so the luke's gospel presents Jesus as a man of compassion who's acquainted with the you know those humanities all the emotion that qualifies a human and he's also a highly sympathetic high priest right Luke portrays Jesus as a man as a human high priest Jesus is a high priest now the fourth eagle why eagle why a bird now we know we all know we're talking from we're pointing out the gospel of John the fourth gospel what does John talk about eagle is a glorious creature which symbolizes majesty so the eagle soars high above the sky above the earth and has a greater vision greater vision that's why we call you know the eagle view eagle view the vision to see well beyond the ability of a man so the eagle has an extra eyelid and his only bird that can look direct at the sun so John is the one who displays the glory of the son of god he has a higher view overall view of the mankind only god has that viewpoint so he compares that to this creature eagle so with that we will move on to the next one which is the next one the four uh do we have time okay we will just complete the point d okay we have two more minutes four genealogies so what are the four genealogies the four genealogies are presented in the four gospel reflects the same four stream so the first one the gospel of Matthew traces Jesus lineage back to Abraham the first one to receive the promise of king and the king David to establish his right to the throne so even through even though Joseph was Jesus earthly father the oldest child in the royal family inherited the right to the throne so according to the law if you come according to the law Joseph the earthly father of Jesus was the legal father even though he was not the natural father and the second point we would like to state from the gospel of Marcus Mark as I did as I shared with you all before Mark has no genealogy because Marcus portraying Jesus as a slave as a servanthood so no one is concerned about a servant's genealogy a servant's background right so he has no genealogy and Luke traces Jesus lineage to the man the first man that is Adam through his mother Mary so this genealogy does two things one like Matthew it traces Jesus back to king David and Judah this giving him the right to the throne of David okay and it goes way back from David it goes back to the first man Adam and bring a revelation about Jesus genealogy is from the king's men redeemer the last Adam is Jesus the first man Adam and the last man Adam is Jesus now the fourth genealogy the fourth gospel that is the gospel of John genealogy of God the pre-existence the existence of God so he's comparing Jesus is God and therefore there is no end there's no beginning there's no end there's no beginning so he just says Jesus is God he existed in the beginning he has no beginning and no end because he is God Jesus is God this is the genealogy that the gospel of John points out to us so with that we are comparing the four points okay or four genealogy and with that we are covered four prophetic stream four tabernacle colors four faces of the cherubim that is the four living creatures that we discussed and we covered four genealogies so in the next class we'll discuss on the rest of the four that is four old testament office four aspects of his sonship four different audience and four evangelist okay so that will end the session with the word of prayer can I request one of you all to please unmute and pray anyone from the class can unmute sorry I was muted Emmanuel would you like to pray would you like to unmute and pray yes Jesus thank you for we pray oh Lord for that you really all done you give us strength to give out our eternal strength all we present to us and inspire us with passion to learn more about you know about you pray for your talents of protection Father thank you for writing Jesus name amen amen thank you so much thank you Manuel thank you each one for joining in today's session see you all tomorrow I mean not tomorrow next week so for next three days that's Wednesday Thursday Friday conference which is an annual conference of all people's church so this conference will also be live streamed the link will be posted on the main audit for all our online and e-learning student I request you all to please um as your as the time permits y'all can log in and watch the conference online so there won't be any classes for next three days so we will resume our bible college classes from Monday onward thank you so much God bless