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Mark, Matthew, Luke and John stand in four columns, so parallel accounts of events can be compared at once.
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Une harmonie des Évangiles à l’usage des étudiants de la vie du Christ in short
This book lays the Gospels in parallel so one life can be read through four witnesses. From this arrangement you keep three things. You see how Mark's order gives Matthew and Luke their frame, and how John fills in what the others pass over.
What Une harmonie des Évangiles à l’usage des étudiants de la vie du Christ is about
What happens when four accounts of one life are set in columns side by side? Mark stands first, then Matthew, Luke and John, and each witness adds a detail the others leave out.
A. T. Robertson prepared this parallel arrangement of the four Gospels for readers studying the life of Christ, and it was printed in 1922. It rests on the older harmony of John Albert Broadus, who followed the movement of events toward the clash with the rulers. The book gives you fourteen parts and one hundred eighty-four sections, from Luke's preface to the ascension.
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?. This book is for Bible students, Sunday school teachers, preachers and curious readers who like to compare sources and follow a life in order.
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Read the four Gospels side by side
A harmony arranges the Gospels in parallel columns, so that one event can be read in each version at once. Matthew and Luke built their frameworks on Mark, and this one fact makes the story easier to follow.
The first scene is Luke's own preface. Luke says that many had drawn up accounts, and that eyewitnesses had handed down what they saw. He traced everything carefully before writing in order to a man named Theophilus. Robertson calls Luke the first critic of the life of Jesus, because he sifted his sources.
Mark has no formal opening, Matthew begins with a family tree, Luke with a historical preface, and John with a hymn to the Word. Robertson does not try to reconcile every difference, and he calls them natural marks of individual work. Four witnesses read together show more than any one of them alone.
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The birth stories come from two points of view
Matthew and Luke give the beginnings, and Robertson sets their lists of ancestors in two columns.
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A quiet first year gathers followers one by one
Almost nothing is recorded of Jesus between the visit to Jerusalem at age twelve and his baptism.
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Capernaum becomes home and conflict begins
After John is put in prison, Jesus returns to Galilee and preaches that the kingdom of God is at hand.
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The Twelve are chosen and the Sermon is given
After a night of prayer on the mountain, Jesus chooses twelve apostles.
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One crowded day in parables, storm and healing
Robertson describes one remarkable day as a Busy Day.
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Peter names Jesus the Christ and the cross comes into view
Jesus withdraws with the Twelve beyond the lake to rest.
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Stories of lost things run beside a rising plot
Jesus goes up quietly to the Feast of Tabernacles.
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The last week ends at the cross
Six days before Passover, Jesus is at Bethany.
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The empty tomb, the commission and the notes
Robertson counts five appearances on the first day and five after it.
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Questions about Une harmonie des Évangiles à l’usage des étudiants de la vie du Christ
What is a harmony of the Gospels?
It is a book that arranges Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in parallel columns so one event can be read in each account at once. This one follows the life of Jesus in order, from Luke's preface to the ascension.
Why is Mark in the first column?
Robertson explains that Matthew and Luke used Mark as the framework of their Gospels. Placing Mark first lets the reader follow the order of events and see how the others add to or rearrange that outline.
Who was John A. Broadus and what did he change?
Broadus prepared the earlier harmony on which this book is based. He gave up the old plan of dividing the life of Jesus by the feasts and followed the inner movement of events toward the rulers' clash.
Cite this edition
Robertson, A. T., and John Albert Broadus. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-harmony-of-the-gospels-for-students-of-the-life-of-christ.
Robertson, A. T., & Broadus, J. A. (2026). A harmony of the Gospels for students of the life of Christ. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-harmony-of-the-gospels-for-students-of-the-life-of-christ (Original work published 1922)
Robertson, A. T., and John Albert Broadus. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-harmony-of-the-gospels-for-students-of-the-life-of-christ.
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