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What comes into view when four Gospel accounts stand side by side?
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tell the life of Jesus with different details and orders. A. T. Robertson’s harmony, built on the earlier work of John Albert Broadus, places matching passages in parallel columns. You can follow a connected account while seeing where the Gospels agree and where they differ.
The arrangement follows the Gospel accounts from Jesus’s birth and preparation through his ministry in Galilee toward Jerusalem and the final week. Robertson adds short essays and notes on sequence, dates and apparent clashes. The result invites close comparison, while raising a question: should each Gospel’s order be read as a strict timeline?
What you’ll discover
- Four accounts in view Read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John together without losing sight of their distinct details.
- Beginnings placed together Compare the birth accounts in Matthew and Luke, noticing what each includes.
- A focus on Galilee Follow accounts of Jesus teaching, healing and gathering followers around Galilee and Capernaum.
- Questions worth examining Explore Robertson’s notes on dates, order and passages that seem to clash.
- Room for careful judgment Consider why some scholars question reading the Gospel accounts as a strict timeline.
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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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- Four witnesses reveal one life
- The beginnings have two viewpoints
- Followers gather before the crowds
- Healing and conflict grow together
- Hearing must lead to doing
- Peter's confession brings a turn
- Welcome grows beside a rising plot
- The different accounts keep their voices
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A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ
by A. T. Robertson; John Albert Broadus · 1922
Mark, Matthew, Luke and John stand in four columns, so parallel accounts of events can be compared at once.
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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.
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- 131,200 words
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- 1922by A. T. Robertson; John Albert Broadus
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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.
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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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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.
The author
A. T. Robertson
1863–1934 · American Baptist biblical scholar
Archibald Thomas Robertson (1863–1934) was an American Baptist New Testament scholar. Born in Virginia, he lived and taught in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He wrote A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research (1914) and A Harmony of the Gospels (1922).
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