Blind Men, Elephants...and Jesus??

Originally posted on PENSIEVE.

You would think becoming intimately acquainted with Jesus--getting to know Him, learning to love Him--is as simple as reading the Bible's four gospels. 

Until you read them back to back, and on the surface, see four portraits of the same man.  Four very different portraits of the same man.

Because I never before read all four gospels in succession, a while back it occurred to me that immersing myself in these "biographies" would give me a clearer picture of Jesus.   Rather than read them in the order they appear in Scripture (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John), I read them John, Mark, Luke, Matthew; random, yes, but going from John to Mark paints a p.r.e.t.t.y. interesting picture.