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The mission of Jesus, the son of God (In relation to the sign of the four Gospels)

The mission of the Old Testament shows us the history of salvation in two ways so that we can expect the coming of Messiah; first, God revealed himself through his history; second, God revealed himself through the life of Israel people. On the other hand, the mission of the early church since the mission of the Apostolic Ages is to make people have life as God's children after they preach that Jesus, the son of God, is Christ and make them believe in him. However, Jesus' mission is to testify that he is the Christ and the son of living God. Jesus Christ lived together with his disciples for three years so that he could testify this truth to his disciples. After Jesus, the son of God, reveal himself as a Christ in this way, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the son of man is,"(Matthew 16:13) and he asked again, "Who do say I am."(Matthew 16:15) When Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the son of the living God"(Matthew 16:16), Jesus praised him as he said, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven."(Matthew 16:17) John also suggests this as the goal of Gospel writing as he said, "But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."(John 20:31) The writers of four Gospel proclaimed that Jesus is the son of God and Christ in their introductory chapter, and they confirmed this fact through a sign. Matthew presented signs as a proof in which Jesus had fulfilled the prophecy of Old Testament, and Mark told that Jesus is the son of God by writing supernatural sign and sign of healing so that he could prove that Jesus had both divinity and humanity. Luke mainly wrote the sign of healing to emphasize the humanity of Jesus Christ, and he wrote about Jesus who had compassion on the people with his supernatural power in order to emphasize people's eagerness and Jesus' mercy when speaking of supernatural sign. John wrote all 8 as supernatural signs to emphasize Jesus' divinity. Therefore, we can see that John's signs and Luke's signs were not repeated. Concerning Jesus' title, we can see that Matthew calls Jesus as son of David, and that Mark calls him as Jesus and Christ or son of God, and that Luke calls him as Jesus and that John calls him as son of God. Likewise, we can see that the writers of four gospels emphasize the sign in each gospel about the Christological theology.