"John's gospel is designed to bring you to your knees in wonder, love, and praise.
Luke's is meant to make you sit up and think hard about Jesus as Lord of the whole world.
Matthew's is like a beautifully bound book which the Christian must study and ponder at leisure, steadily reordering one's life in the process.
Mark's is like a hastily printed revolutionary tract, stuffed into a back pocket, and frequently pulled out, read by torchlight, and whispered to one's co-conspirators.
You need all four. You never know when you are going to have to call on them."
(N. T. Wright, The Original Jesus).
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