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Quotes About Synoptic

We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.
~ Elaine Pagels
Mutually incompatible theories abound as to where, when, and why the synoptic gospels came to final form.
~ Marcus J. Borg
The word synoptic means "seen together":
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals, 123 but for Hal's synoptic purposes here it's enough to say that megatonnage is distributed among Combatants according to an integrally regressed ratio of (a)
~ David Foster Wallace
One way and another, all three synoptic gospels are clear: in telling the story of Jesus they are consciously telling the story of how Israel's God came back to his people, in judgment and mercy.
~ Unknown