So, there are four Gospel accounts, but one Christ, four records, but one objective, four pictures, but one person. Technically it is not Matthew’s Gospel but the Gospel according to Matthew, for he did not invent the good news he was simply the evangelist bearing the message. It is Gods’ gospel; it is the gospel of Jesus Christ; it is the gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The task of reading the Gospels is relatively simple. These books are easy to understand they are interesting to peruse. Readers are already treading ground that has been well trodden before. And that is and advantage, which means that one is not, necessarily wrestling with a subject that is completely unknown or forbidding. We have all formed certain impressions about these books before we have even opened them to begin to study them.