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    "note": "Matthew, Mark, Luke, John — the fourfold witness to the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Christ. The cornerstone of the Christian canon. ASV (1901).",
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      "subtitle": "Gospel of the Kingdom — Jesus as the new Moses",
      "blurb": "Composed for a Jewish-Christian readership. Opens with the genealogy from Abraham; structures the teaching in five great discourses (the Sermon on the Mount, the missionary discourse, the kingdom-parables, the church-discourse, the eschatological discourse) framed as a new Pentateuch. The most often-quoted gospel in early Christian liturgy and catechesis."
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      "subtitle": "The oldest gospel — *immediately* and the Messianic secret",
      "blurb": "The shortest and likely earliest of the four gospels. The breathless *euthus* ('immediately') drives a narrative of action over discourse. The motif of the *Messianic secret* — Jesus repeatedly commands silence about his identity. Closes (in the earliest manuscripts) at 16:8 with the women fleeing the empty tomb."
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      "subtitle": "Gospel of the universal mercy; the historian's care",
      "blurb": "The third gospel — companion volume to Acts. Addressed to Theophilus 'that you might know the certainty.' Distinctive parables (the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son), the role of women, the songs of the infancy (Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc Dimittis). The historian's gospel; the universal scope of mercy."
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      "subtitle": "Gospel of the *Logos* — the Word made flesh",
      "blurb": "The fourth gospel — radically distinct from the synoptics in form and theology. Opens with the prologue *In the beginning was the Word* — the highest Christology in the New Testament. The seven signs, the seven *I AM* sayings, the great farewell discourse (chs 13-17), the high-priestly prayer. The gospel that has shaped the contemplative tradition most."
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