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142 Prophet Jesus (pbuh): A Prophet, Not A Son, of God
Jesus' (pbuh) life and notes how very differently they are depicted in the
Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John. After saying that we need to
accept one or the other, he states:
We must, however, entertain another possibility altogether: perhaps
none of the authors knew what took place when. Possibly they had scattered
bits of information, from which they constructed believable narratives that
contain a fair amount of guesswork. 41
In his important study The Origins and Development of New Testament
Many biblical scholars accept that John, the presumed author
of the Fourth Gospel, used a very different style from the other
three Gospels in order to provide a so-called support for the
belief in the trinity.