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Four Gospels Merged in Extraordinary ‘Common Gospel’


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The Common Gospel presents the Good News of Jesus in a single, unified book. Combining the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, it presents the times and teachings of Jesus in one common, consolidated framework. As such, The Common Gospel provides a naturally flowing lifeline for the Son of Man – from his humble and holy birth through to his crowning glorification – and brings clarity and focus to the history of Jesus the Messiah.

“The four Christian Gospels distilled into a single tale …
A unified, well-considered Jesus story for the beginning student of Christianity.”
—Kirkus Book Reviews (PDF Review)

The Common Gospel by The Four Evangelists

Structurally, The Common Gospel is packaged in a book that is designed for readability. It streamlines the language, recasts the material, and displays the text in a format that is clean and elegant. It also provides a distinctive reading experience. One early reviewer noted, “At first, I had difficulty adapting to no books, no chapters, and no verses. It read just like … well … a book.”

Typically the four traditional Gospels are expressed in 4 books, 89 chapters, and 3,779 verses. By contrast, The Common Gospel delivers the Good News in just 1 book, 16 parts, and 108 sections. In addition, thinned of extraneous and redundant expressions, The Common Gospel is 30% more succinct than most Bible texts.

More importantly, the panoramic view that this unified text affords is extraordinary and casts Jesus in new and revealing light. The Common Gospel is a compelling new testament to Jesus the Messiah. In a clear, complete, and accurate account, it bears certain witness to the power and glory of Jesus and cultivates in the reader a profound sense of spiritual insight.

By taking what Mark says, and taking what Luke says, then taking what Matthew and John say and melding them all together, so that Jesus says and does all the things that each of the Gospel writers indicates … [This creates] a new Gospel that is not like any of the ones that have come down to us. —

Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus (2005)

Wordsmith Associates is the sponsor and publisher of The Common Gospel, and Wordsmith founder, Rod Mebane, completed the extensive revisioning and precise editorial work that the integration required – in work that spanned a 12-year period.

CLICK HERE to review the introductory pages of the netbook version of The Common Gospel.

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Paperback – ISBN 978-0-9759290-4-9 – 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall – 332 pages – List Price $14.95

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WRITINGS ON THE WALL

  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. –Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review
  • Honeyed words like bees, gilded and sticky, with a little sting. –Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Pretty Words
  • It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some irradiating word. –Alexander Smith, “Dreamthorp,” On the Writing of Essays
  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts –never to heaven go. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • The writer doesn’t want success ... The writer wants to leave a scratch on the wall of oblivion that someone a hundred or a thousand years later will see. Kilroy was here. –William Faulkner, Faulkner in the University
  • Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, and universal darkness buries all. –Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. –Horace, Epistles
  • Man’s word is God in man. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Idylls of the King,” The Coming of Arthur
  • Omit needless words. –William Strunk, Jr, The Elements of Style
  • And many a word, at random spoken, may soothe a wound or heart that’s broken. –Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles
  • To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality. –Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traité Elémentaire de Chimie
  • Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your action. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. –Anonymous
  • How long a time lies in one little word! Such is the breath of kings. –Shakespeare, King Richard II
  • In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. –The Common Gospel, “Eternal Word”
  • A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. –John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words”
  • I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long Words Bother me. –Alan Alexander Milne, Willie-the-Pooh
  • The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work and that writing didn’t require any. –Russell Baker, Growing Up
  • Word is a shadow of deed. –Democritus
  • Choice word and measured phrase… above the reach of ordinary men. –William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
  • “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. –Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
  • Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. –Jim Henson, The Muppet Movie
  • How many verses have I thrown into the fire because the one peculiar word, the wanted most, was irrecoverably lost. –Walter Savage Landor, Verses Why Burnt
  • Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact. It is silence which isolates. –Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can’t write, can surely review. –James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
  • Prête-moi ta plume pour écrire un mot. Lend me your pen to write a word. –Au Clair de la Lune
  • Good words are worth much … and cost little. –George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
  • The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. –Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence
  • In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. –Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous
  • Words are like leaves and, where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. –Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
  • Sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • So is a word better than a gift. –Apocrypha

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