Christ Quote by Christopher J. H. Wright

There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.

— Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that the canonical…

— N.T. Wright

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the…

— Elaine Pagels

The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

“According to all the four Gospels, and according to all the supposed sources which modern criticism has tried to detect back of the four…

— J. Gresham Machen

The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that…

— John Drane

“The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come…

— Frank Butcher

There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of…

— John Shelby Spong

There are four accounts of the gospel itself! The momentous events of the conception, birth, life, teaching, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus of…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

“The gospel writers did not simply tell stories for the sake of telling stories, but to touch the lives of their listeners in a…

— Alden Thompson

The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

— Timothy Keller