Once we look for Jesus’s words and ideas everywhere in the New Testament, we’ll find more and more of them.
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It’s easy to separate the four Gospels from the rest of the New Testament. The Gospels tell us stories about Jesus; they record his words and works. But what about the other 23 books? Of course, these books have much to say about Jesus. We get far greater depth on the significance of his death and resurrection in the Epistles than in the Gospels. We find the apostles’ reflections on Jesus’s humanity and divinity as the New Testament unfolds.
But do these other books have anything to do with what Jesus actually taught? While some people drive a wedge between Jesus and the rest of the New Testament, a far better approach is to train ourselves to recognize Jesus’s voice in the whole New Testament.
