A Survey of the New Testament Laminated Sheet

Robert H. Gundry

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780310273141
• eBook ISBN: 9780310109341
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

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VII. JESUS’ PUBLIC LIFE AND MINISTRY

Dates: AD 27 – 30 or 30 – 33 during Tiberius’s Emperorship

Year of Obscurity	Year of Popularity	Year of Rejection
John the Baptist’s preparation for Jesus Jesus’ baptism Jesus’ temptation Jesus’ preaching & teaching Jesus’ miracle-working & exorcisms	Large crowds More preaching & teaching More miracle-working & exorcisms	Peter’s confession of Jesus’ messiahship Jesus’ predictions of passion & resurrection Jesus’ transfiguration Raising of Lazarus Passion Week Triumphal entry Temple cleansing Olivet Discourse Last Supper Arrest & trials Crucifixion Resurrection Postresurrection appearances

Aerial view of Sea of Galilee and Tiberias

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Jesus’ Teaching

Jesus

■ Made heavy use of parables (comparisons)

■ Designated himself as “the Son of Man”

■ Addressed God as “Abba” (“Father”)

■ Stressed loving God & one’s neighbor, & the Golden Rule

■ Featured God’s kingdom/rule, partly realized in Jesus’ ministry but yet to be completed at the second coming

Mark

■ Author: John Mark wrote as an “evangelist” & recorder of Peter’s reminiscences.

■ Date: John Mark wrote before or around AD 70.

■ Purpose: Mark is oriented to Jesus’ mighty deeds & words as God’s Son & is written to encourage persecuted Christians or counteract the shame of Jesus’ crucifixion.

■ Reading Mark with interpretation:

• John the Baptist is portrayed as preparer of Jesus’ way & baptizer of Jesus & others.

• Jesus’ temptation occasioned the acknowledgment of him as the Christ, God’s Son, by Satan, wild beasts, & angels.

• Jesus’ authority, displayed in teaching, exorcisms, & healings, confirmed that he is truly the Christ, God’s Son.

• Jesus authorized the twelve apostles to act on his behalf (“apostles” connoting being sent to act with the sender’s own authority).

• Jesus’ parables obscured the truth judgmentally from outsiders & clarified the truth rewardingly for insiders.

• Peter’s confession of Jesus’ messiahship exposed his & the other disciples’ expectation that Jesus would not suffer but rule as the Christ. Jesus rebuked Peter & corrected his understanding of messiahship by emphasizing that the Christ must undergo death & resurrection.

• The Transfiguration previewed Jesus’ future kingly glory.

• The Triumphal Entry occurred on Palm Sunday of Passion Week.

• The Olivet Discourse contains predictions of destruction of the temple, the abomination of desolation, the great tribulation, & the second coming.

• The Last Supper included Passover & institution of the Lord’s Supper.

• Jesus’ betrayal, arrest, trials before the Sanhedrin & Pontius Pilate, crucifixion, & resurrection followed in quick succession.

• Extant endings beyond 16:8 are inauthentic.

Matthew

■ Authorship: Tradition favors the apostle Matthew.

■ Origin & Date: This Gospel probably originated in Antioch, Syria, whether before or after AD 70 being disputed.

■ Structure: Jesus’ genealogy & nativity are followed by mainly Marcan narrative interspersed with 5 discourses of Jesus.

■ Jewishness: Jesus is portrayed as Moses-like...

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• I. INTRODUCTION
• II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
• III. CULTURAL BACKGROUND OTHER THAN RELIGIOUS
• IV. RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND
• V. CANON AND TEXT OF THE NT
• VI. MODERN TREATMENTS OF JESUS’ LIFE
• VII. JESUS’ PUBLIC LIFE AND MINISTRY
• VIII. THE BOOK OF ACTS AND THE EARLY CHURCH
• IX. PAUL’S EARLY LETTERS
• X. PAUL’S MAJOR LETTERS
• XI. PAUL’S LETTERS FROM PRISON
• XII. PAUL’S PASTORAL LETTERS
• XIII. HEBREWS
• XIV. CATHOLIC LETTERS
• XV. REVELATION