synoptist

[ si-nop-tist ]

noun

, (often initial capital letter)

1. one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.

Other Words From

• synop·tistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of synoptist¹

First recorded in 1855–60; synopt(ic) + -ist

Example Sentences

The third Synoptist sets the rending of the veil before Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost; whilst in Matthew and Mark it is after the cry and giving up the spirit.

From Project Gutenberg

Although none of the canonical Gospels, except Matthew, says anything of an earthquake, and the first Synoptist associates it with the moment when Jesus “gave up the ghost,” Peter narrates that when the body of the Lord was unloosed from the cross, the moment it was laid on the ground the whole earth quaked beneath the awful burden: a representation almost grander than anything in the four Gospels.

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If the phrase has been mechanically introduced, it has been so by the second Synoptist, in whose text it is more out of place than in Peter.

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Peter has evidently got an earlier form of the story, without those much later touches with which the third Synoptist has embellished it.

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This resurrection of the saints “that were sleeping” is associated by Eusebius with the descent into hell,112 and it is not improbable that the first Synoptist had it in his mind.

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