The Synoptic Gospels are the three books of the New Testament. These tell the story of Jesus from his life, death and eventual resurrection. These three Gospels are Mark, Luke and Matthew. These are considered synoptic because they include similar if not the same stories. When comparing them in class we put them into columns and picked apart their similarities and differences. When it came to parts of the Gospel that are nit synoptic John was mentioned. John came up as it does not line up with the other three Gospels in the same way.
With the idea of the Synoptic Gospels a few questions were asked in class. First of which was, which story came first? Were these stories taken from others? The reasoning behind this belief is the similarities within the stories. They are almost word for word. When talking about it in class we mentioned it to be like a courtroom. If three people came in saying the exact same story nearly word for word people would be suspicious and rightfully so. However the Gospel just gives us different views on the same story. as discussed in class the Gospel authors were dependent on each other in order to write down these stories. When it came to the final product some details were borrowed but this is a necessity to tell the full story.