Do you have a favorite gospel?

[Twilight Hue]

Ecclesiastes... Inspiring.

Its not a gospel but I agree. Its one of the most poetic in the Bible. I do have a fondness for Ecclesiastes.

 

[Samael_Khan]

Do you have a favorite Gospel in the Christian Bible? If so, which is it and why?

I like John. It uses a lot of symbolism akin to my favourite book of the Bible, Revelations. It makes a person think.

 

[oldbadger]

Concerning the women taken in adultery:

Here are thirteen points that summarize why we should not treat John 7:53–8:11 as original to the text.

1. John 7:53–8:11 are missing from earliest manuscripts (P66 P75 Sinaiticus Vaticanus). Alexandrinus is defective at this point (pages are missing), but there doesn’t appear to be enough room for 7:53–8:11 to have been included.
2. It’s missing from the oldest (syrc, s) and the best (syrp) Syriac manuscripts.
3. It’s absent in some of the Old Latin, Old Georgian, and Armenian manuscripts.
4. It’s not in the best manuscripts of the Pe****ta, the Syriac translation of the Bible made in the early third century.
5. It’s not referenced in the Arabic version of Tatian’s Diatessaron, which combined the four Gospels but without our passage.
6. No Church Father writes a commentary on the passage until the 12th century, and then Euthymius says it’s not authentic. The earlier Fathers comment up to John 7:52 and then move directly to comment on John 8:12ff., and several Fathers (Origen, Chrysostom) commented verse by verse on the biblical book.
7. It’s not found in most lectionaries.
8. The first manuscript to have it is D (fifth century), a Western text-type manuscript willing to repeat many altered readings.
9. Many manuscripts mark it with scholia, indicating that it’s not authentic.
10. Erasmus’ number 1 manuscript omits it. He writes, “The story of the adulterous woman is not contained in the majority of Greek copies.
11. One of the signs that a passage may not be original is that it appears in different locations in the New Testament (after John 7:36, 7:44, John 21:25, or Luke 21:38; 24:53). If it were authentic, it is more likely to appear in only one location.
12. The style and vocabulary are different from the rest of the gospel.
13. It interrupts the flow of Jesus’ discourse from chapter 7 to chapter 8.

John 7:53–8:11 | Missing Bible Verses

Wow! ........ Just, Wow!

 

[oldbadger]

Do you have a favorite Gospel in the Christian Bible? If so, which is it and why?

Mark.
Most of it was actually witnessed, true, imo.