| Introduction. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| Introducing Jesus. Well, his gospels. Well, him too. |
1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1-4 | 1.1-18 |
| Word! |
| | | 1.1-5 |
| Recognizing and embracing the light of the world. |
| | | 1.1-13 |
| The word became human, and explains God. |
| | | 1.14-18 |
| Birth and childhood. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| Jesus’s two genealogies. |
| 1.1-17 | 3.23-38 | |
| One heck of a birth announcement. |
| | 1.5-25 | |
| How Mary became Jesus’s mother. |
| | 1.26-38 | |
| Mary’s visit to Elizabeth. |
| | 1.35-56 | |
| The birth of John the baptist. |
| | 1.57-80 | |
| How Joseph became Jesus’s father. |
| 1.18-25 | | |
| Christ the Savior is born. |
| | 2.1-7 | |
| The sheep-herders’ vision of the angels. |
| | 2.8-20 | |
| The prophets who recognized Jesus. |
| | 2.31-40 | |
| The magi and the monstrous king. |
| 2.1-18 | | |
| How Jesus became “Jesus the Nazarene.” |
| 2.19-23 | | |
| Jesus of Nazareth, child prodigy. |
| | 2.41-52 | |
| John the baptist, and Jesus’s baptism. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| The ministry of John the baptist. |
1.2-6 | 3.1-5 | 3.1-6 | 1.6-8 |
| John the baptist’s message for the religious. |
| 3.7-10 | 3.7-9 | 1.19-23 |
| John the baptist’s message for everyone else. |
1.7-8 | 3.11-12 | | 1.24-28 |
| The baptism of Jesus. And adoption. And anointing. |
1.9-11 | 3.13-17 | 3.21-22 | 1.29-34 |
| Jesus’s easy victory over the devil. |
1.12-13 | 4.1-11 | 4.1-13 | |
| Jesus gains his first four students. |
| | | 1.35-51 |
| Cana, Jerusalem, Sykhár, and Cana again. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| Jesus provides six kegs for a drunken party. |
| | | 2.1-11 |
| When Jesus got out the whip. |
| | | 2.12-17 |
| Knock the temple down? |
| | | 2.18-22 |
| Introducing Nicodemus to the “born again” concept. |
| | | 2.23-3.10 |
| It’s hard to teach people whose minds are made up. |
| | | 3.9-13 |
| Lifting up Jesus exposes the world’s problems. |
| | | 3.12-21 |
| John the baptist’s shrinking ministry. |
| | | 3.22-36 |
| Samaritans, and Jesus’s living water. |
| | | 4.1-15 |
| Jesus prophesies to the Samaritan. |
| | | 4.16-24 |
| Jesus harvests the Samaritans. |
| | | 4.25-42 |
| The first time Jesus cured anyone. |
| | | 4.43-54 |
| After moving to Kfar Nahum. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| Preaching, relocating, gathering students. |
1.14-20 | 4.12-22 | 4.14-15
5.1-11 | |
| An unclean spirit in Jesus’s synagogue. |
1.21-28 | | 4.31-37 | |
| Curing Simon Peter’s mother-in-law. |
1.29-31 | 8.14-15 | 4.38-39 | |
| Jesus cures the crowds. |
1.32-34 | 8.16-17 | 4.40-41 | |
| Ready to take on the whole of the Galilee. |
1.35-39 | 4.23-25 | 4.42-44 | |
| The man Jesus cured… then drove away. |
1.40-45 | 8.1-4 | 5.12-16 | |
| Jesus forgives, then heals, a paraplegic. |
2.1-12 | 9.1-8 | 5.17-26 | |
| The sickly man at the pool. |
| | | 5.1-18 |
| Loads of proof in Jesus’s favor—but people don’t wanna see it. |
| | | 5.31-47 |
| Jesus calls Levi. Or Matthew. Whatever. |
2.13-17 | 9.9-13 | Lk 5.27-32 | |
| So why weren’t Jesus’s students fasting? |
2.18-22 | 9.14-17 | 5.33-39 | |
| Master of the Sabbath. |
2.23-28 | 12.1-8 | 6.1-5 | |
| The person with the paralyzed hand. |
3.1-6 | 12.9-14 | 6.6-11 | |
| The crowds who came to see Jesus. |
3.7-12 | 4.24-5.1 | 6.17-19 | |
| The Sermon on the Mount (or Plain). | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| Awesome and awful.* |
| 5.3-12 | 6.20-26 | |
| The earth’s salt.* |
| 5.13 | | |
| The world’s light.* |
| 5.14-16 | | |
| Jesus’s most misinterpreted teaching.* |
| 5.17-20 | | |
| When our anger gets us into trouble.* |
| 5.21-26 | | |
| Getting hold of our lusts… before we end up in the trash.* |
| 5.27-32 | | |
| Multiple levels of truth.* |
| 5.33-37 | | |
| Karma: How we imagine the universe seeks justice.* |
| 5.38-42 | 6.29-31 | |
| Perfect love—without conditions.* |
| 5.43-48 | 6.27-36 | |
| Charity for God, versus charity for public approval.* |
| 6.1-4 | | |
| The street-corner show-off.* |
| 6.5-6 | | |
| Get in the closet.* |
| 6.5-6 | | |
| Short, potent, authentic prayer.* |
| 6.7-8 | | |
| Sucking up to God.* |
| 6.9-10 | | |
| “Whenever you pray, pray this.”* |
| | 11.1-4 | |
| Our Father who art in heaven.* |
| 6.9-10 | | |
| Hallowed be thy name.* |
| 6.9 | | |
| Thy kingdom come.* |
| 6.10 | | |
| Daily bread.* |
| 6.11 | | |
| Is it “debts” or “trespasses”?* |
| 6.12 | | |
| Lead us not into temptation.* |
| 6.13 | | |
| Deliver us from evil.* |
| 6.13 | | |
| For thine is the kingdom…* |
| 6.13 | | |
| Prayer’s one prerequisite: Forgiveness.* |
| 6.14-15 | | |
| Treasures in heaven.* |
| 6.19-21 | | |
| Kingdom economics: How’s your eye?* |
| 6.22-23 | | |
| Worshiping Mammon instead of Jesus.* |
| 6.24 | | |
| Worrying has no place in God’s kingdom.* |
| 6.25-34 | | |
| Can’t see; pretty sure they can.* |
| | 6.39-40 | |
| Double standards.* |
| 7.1-5 | 6.37-38
6.41-42 | |
| Deaf ears aren’t opportunities.* |
| 7.6 | | |
| Can we really ask God for anything we want?* |
| 7.7-11 | | |
| The Golden Rule.* |
| 7.12 | 6.31 | |
| The narrow gate. Or door. Either way, tricky to get in.* |
| 7.13-14 | | |
| Watch out for fake and fruitless prophets.* |
| 7.15-20 | 6.43-45 | |
| When Jesus says, “I don’t know you.”* |
| 7.21-23 | 6.46 | |
| The Sermon on the Mount.* |
| 7.24-27 | 6.47-49 | |
| Jesus doesn’t teach like scribes. |
1.21-22 | 7.28-29 | 4.31-32 | |
| Apostles and parables. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| The first 12 apostles. |
3.13-19 | 10.1-4 | 6.12-16
9.1-2 | |
| Jesus’s family: No, he didn’t disown them. |
3.20-21
3.31-35 | 12.46-50 | 8.19-21 | |
| Exorcisms by Satan’s power? Hardly. |
3.22-27 | 9.32-34
12.22-30 | 11.14-23 | |
| Blaspheming the Holy Spirit: The unforgiven sin. |
3.28-30 | 12.31-32 | 12.10 | |
| Parables: Because the kingdom’s secrets are only for us. |
4.10-13
4.25 | 13.10-17 | 8.9-10, 18
10.23-24
19.26 | 12.37-40 |
| The Four Seeds story. |
4.1-9
4.13-20 | 13.1-9
13.18-23 | 5.1-3
8.5-8
8.11-15 | |
| Eventually everyone will understand Jesus’s parables. |
4.21-25 | | | |
| The Independent Fruit story. |
4.26-29 | | | |
| The Wheat and Weeds story. |
| 13.24-30
13.36-43 | | |
| The Mustard Seed story. |
4.30-32 | 13.31-32 | 13.18-19 | |
| The Yeast in Dough story. |
| 13.33 | 13.20-21 | |
| Throwing out “treasures” new and old. |
4.33-34 | 13.34-35
13.51-53 | | |
| The Hidden Treasure, and the Valuable Pearl stories. |
| 13.44-46 | | |
| The Fish-Sorting story. |
| 13.47-50 | | |
| Jesus stops the weather. |
4.35-41 | 8.18
8.23-27 | 8.22-25 | |
| The legion of evil spirits. |
5.1-10 | 8.28-29 | 8.26-31 | |
| Killing the pigs. |
5.11-20 | 8.30-34 | 8.32-39 | |
| Jesus raises a dead girl. (Or was she only asleep?) |
5.21-24
5.35-43 | 9.18-19
9.23-26 | 8.40-42
49-56 | |
| Curing a bleeder. |
5.25-34 | 9.20-22 | 8.43-48 | |
| Jesus visits his homeland. |
6.1-6 | 13.53-58 | 4.16-30 | |
| Short-staffed for the big harvest. |
| 9.35-38 | 10.2 | |
| Sending out the Twelve. |
6.7-11 | 10.1-15 | 9.1-5 | |
| The Twelve and the miracles. |
6.12-13 | | 9.6 | |
| The centurion’s servant—and his surprising faith. |
| 8.5-13 | 7.1-10 | |
| Jesus interrupts a funeral. |
| | 7.11-17 | |
| John the baptist and living bread. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| John the baptist checks in on Jesus. |
| 11.2-6 | 7.18-23 | |
| What Jesus had to say about John the baptist. |
| 11.7-15 | 7.24-30 | |
| Antipas Herod and John the baptist. |
6.14-20 | 14.1-5 | 9.7-9 | |
| John the baptist’s death. |
6.21-29 | 14.6-12 | | |
| Trying to get away from it all… and failing. |
6.30-34 | 14.12-14 | 9.10-11 | 6.1-4 |
| Jesus’s students feed thousands of people. |
6.35-44 | 14.15-21 | 9.12-17 | 6.5-13 |
| When the crowds realized Jesus is the Prophet. |
6.45-47 | 14.22-23 | | 6.14-17 |
| Jesus and Peter walk on water. |
6.46-52 | 14.23-33 | | 6.16-21 |
| Seeking Jesus—who’s curing people in the next town. |
6.53-56 | 14.34-36 | | 6.22-25 |
| Seek the living bread! Accept no substitutes. |
| | | 6.25-29 |
| The living bread wants to save us. |
| | | 6.30-42 |
| Jesus came from heaven? And you gotta eat him? |
| | | 6.41-60 |
| When Jesus loses students. |
| | | 6.59-71 |
| Jesus’s passion. | Mk | Mt | Lk | Jn |
|---|
| Jesus prays at Gethsemane.* |
14.32-41 | 26.36-45 | 22.39-46 | 18.1 |
| Judas Iscariot sells Jesus out to the authorities.* |
14.41-46 | 26.45-50 | 22.47-48 | 18.1-3 |
| Jesus’s arrest: His abuse begins.* |
14.45-52 | 26.50-56 | 22.49-54 | 18.4-12 |
| Jesus’s pre-trial trial.* |
| | | 18.12-14
18.19-24 |
| Jesus accused with false testimonies.* |
14.55-59 | 26.59-61 | 22.66 | 2.18-22 |
| Jesus getting abused by his guards.* |
14.65 | 26.67-68 | 22.63-65 | 18.22-23 |
| Jesus testifies about (or against) himself.* |
14.60-64 | 26.62-66 | 22.67-71 | |
| Jesus sentenced to death by the Senate.* |
14.61-64 | 26.63-66 | 22.67-71 | |
| Simon Peter pretends he doesn’t know Jesus.* |
14.66-72 | 26.69-75 | 22.54-62 | 18.15-18
18.25-27 |
| Jesus confuses Antipas Herod.* |
| | 23.4-12 | |
| Jesus gets flogged.* |
15.15 | 27.26 | 23.16 | 19.1 |
| Jesus given a robe and crowned with thorns.* |
15.16-20 | 27.27-31 | 23.11 | 19.2-3
19.5-6 |
| What became of Judas Iscariot.* |
| 27.3-10 | | |
| Simon the Cyrenian, the man who carried Jesus’s cross.* |
15.21 | 27.32 | 23.26 | |
| When Jesus made John responsible of his mother.* |
| | | 19.25-27 |
| Vinegar to drink.* |
15.23, 26 | 27.33-34, 48 | 23.36 | 19.28-30 |
| Jesus comforts the believing thief.* |
15.27, 32 | 27.38, 44 | 23.32-33
23.39-43 | |
| “My God, why have you forsaken me?”* |
15.33-36 | 27.45-49 | | |