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In this course, Rev. Dr. David Fekete, co-editor of Our Daily Bread, engages famous sayings of Christ from the Gospels through a Swedenborgian lens.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n INTRODUCTION<\/b><\/p>\n When one reflects on a course about the sayings of Jesus, two Gospels are best: Matthew or Luke. \u00a0Those two Gospels have the most sayings of Jesus, and they have basically the same sayings. They have more sayings than the Gospel of Mark. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mark was written first. \u00a0Matthew and Luke had Mark, and used Mark when they wrote their Gospels. \u00a0So most everything that is in Mark is in Matthew and Luke. But Matthew and Luke had another document. \u00a0Matthew and Luke had a document called \u201cQ\u201d (from the German word <\/span>quelle<\/span><\/i>, which means <\/span>source<\/span><\/i>). \u00a0Q is a collection of sayings of Jesus. \u00a0No one has actually found a scroll of Q. \u00a0But when one compares the sayings in Matthew and Luke, one finds the same sayings in basically the same order. \u00a0Mark doesn\u2019t have these sayings. So Matthew and Luke have all of Mark, plus sayings in them which Mark doesn\u2019t have. \u00a0For these reasons, we think that Matthew and Luke had the same \u201cQ\u201d document which they used, along with Mark\u2019s Gospel, when they wrote their Gospels.<\/span><\/p>\n I will be using Matthew\u2019s Gospel in this course about the sayings of Jesus. \u00a0Matthew has more references to the Hebrew Scriptures in it than Luke does. Early Christians drew on Hebrew Scriptures as they tried to understand who Jesus was. \u00a0So we\u2019ll also learn about the Hebrew Scriptures as we learn about Jesus\u2019 sayings, and we\u2019ll see how Christians used the Hebrew Scriptures as they tried to make sense out of everything that happened surrounding Jesus\u2019 birth, ministry, death, and resurrection.<\/span><\/p>\n We can\u2019t use John\u2019s Gospel. \u00a0John has sermons and long sayings that none of the other three Gospels have. \u00a0Also, the order of the events is different in John than in all the other three Gospels. \u00a0That is, Matthew, Mark, and Luke have the same events in the same order. John has events that are not in the other three Gospels and the events that he shares with them are in a different order. \u00a0When we study the New Testament, we can study Matthew, Mark, and Luke together. We have to study John separately. And we have already done that in another course.<\/span><\/p>\n -Rev. David Fekete, PhD<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Click below for printable PDF versions of Rev. Fekete’s lessons:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Sayings of Jesus – Lesson I <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sayings of Jesus – Lesson II<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sayings of Jesus – Lesson III<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sayings of Jesus – Lesson IV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sayings of Jesus – Lesson V<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sayings of Jesus – Lesson VI-XIII<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n