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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – the four gospel writers. What a debt we owe to them! Were it not for their writings we would not be able to imagine this person Jesus, God with us in our own kind of life. The gospels allow us to relate to Jesus 2,000 years later. Each writer brings his own particular perspective, shaping how he presents Jesus.
The gospel traditionally attributed to Matthew is the first appearing in the New Testament. But the most commonly accepted theory is that Mark’s gospel was the first to be written and that Matthew had Mark’s account in front of him as he wrote, together with a second document that Luke also had.