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It is commonly accepted that the gospels were written in the order of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. However, since the Greek church does not know how the gospel authors used the Old Testament scriptures, they do not understand that the writers had several purposes in writing: record fulfillment of prophecy, leave notes for interested Greeks to make tracing their exegesis possible, and record the Hebrew teachings of apostles for the Greeks in Greek.

Fulfillment

The first purpose was to record what Jesus had done that fulfilled scriptures. They did not merely tell us interesting things about Jesus.

Luke tells the story of when Jesus was twelve years old and stayed behind in the temple when his parents had left for home. The Greeks think this is an interesting story of his early life that shows something of his remarkable wisdom and knowledge as a boy. Luke told the story because it fulfills the prophetic riddle of Genesis 14 and the nine kings.

Matthew tells us specifically that Jesus was called a Nazarene to fulfill prophetic riddle, but since the Greeks can't read prophetic riddle, they wonder if they lost some scripture somewhere. It fulfills the prophetic riddle contained in the law of the Nazarite.

John tells us "In the beginning was the Word", but because the Greeks can;t read prophetic riddle assume John got that idea from a Greek philosopher named Philo. It comes from the prophetic riddle of Gen 1.1.

The challenge to the Greek is to find the prophetic riddle in the Old Testament, that the New Testament authors had in mind when they recorded the detail about the life of Jesus.

Notes for exegesis

Each New Testament author "studied to show himself approved of God" ^[1] The authors wrote 10-15 years apart. Each author had 10-15 years to learn things they had collectively not known previously. Though Jesus had taught them to read the Bible properly, they had to practice doing it. They learned more and more of the prophetic riddle with time. They were not just instantly given knowledge.

At the time that Mark wrote the teaching of Peter in his book named Mark, the collective knowledge of the prophetic riddles known were included; if not in number, at least in the types of riddles with which they were familiar.

Mark wrote that the story began with the preaching of John the Baptist. Later, when they had time to study more, they were able to see the prophetic riddles extending back to Abraham. Matthew begins his gospel there. With more time, Luke was able to push the beginning of the story back to Adam. And with the most time, and isolation on a prison island, John was able to push the start of the story all the way back to the first words of Genesis.

The differences in how stories are told between the gospel authors tell us how much more they could understand the prophetic riddles of the Old Testament. They were able to correlate even more details concerning the life of Christ with the prophetic riddles. Some details did not need repeated since they were well known from previous teachings.

The new material, and the way old material is handled in new ways, are the notes and hints as to how they learned to read the Old Testament riddles.

Exegesis

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1. ↑ 2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.