“In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is not interested in teaching about himself. But when you read John’s Gospel, that’s virtually the only thing Jesus talks about. In John Chapter 10 Jesus actually claims to be a representation of God on Earth.

This is completely unlike anything that you find in Mark or in Matthew and Luke. And it – historically, it creates all sorts of problems:

If the historical Jesus actually went around saying that he was God, it’s very hard to believe that Matthew, Mark and Luke left out that part – you know, as if that part wasn’t important to mention. But in fact, they don’t mention it.

In the other Gospels, he’s talked about as the son of God, but in Jewish circles, the son of God was not a divine being. The son of God was always a human being. But in the Gospel of John, Jesus is absolutely a divine being.

What scholars have thought for a long time now is that John is the last Gospel to be written, and that the understanding of Jesus had changed dramatically in the years between the Gospels”

Dr Bart D. Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He is currently New Testament Professor at the UoNC Chapel Hill. Professor Ehrman holds a BA from Moody Bible Seminary, and a M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Seminary. Dr Erhman was pastor of the Princeton Baptist Church while completing his Ph.D, he is now describes himself as an Agnostic and continues to love studying the bible as an academic.