Thus, the story of the cleansing of the Temple in Mark's gospel is really Jesus' way, according to Mark, of showing that the Temple is not bearing its proper fruit. Jesus also then curses a fig ...

[In] the fourth gospel, the gospel according to John ... They both use the gospel of Mark. They both use the so-called synoptic sayings gospel, and therefore great similarities are evident ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...