History Quote by N.T. Wright

“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character,…

— Umberto Eco

“If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they spoke…

— N.T. Wright

“Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past…

— Mary E. DeMuth

“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history…

— Eli Of Kittim

“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is considered that…

— Thomas Paine

“But if Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Docetism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they…

— N.T. Wright

“… I went back to the stories people wrote about Him. It was mostly crazy stories written by people who called themselves Matthew, Mark,…

— Elizabeth Tebby Germaine

“In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the…

— Swindoll Charles R

“The Gospel of Mark has some major shortcomings: It contains no birth narrative; it implies that Jesus, a repentant sinner, became the Son of…

— Alan Dundes University of California

“Discovering the Jewishness of Jesus and of the Early Jesus movement is a crucial step in the continual process of accurate interpretation of the…

— Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be the type…

— Timothy J. Stoner

“For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of Israel, but…

— N.T. Wright