Introducing Jesus: The Fourfold Gospel

by Andreas J. Köstenberger

Publisher:

Kregel

, 2025

Overview

A book for those who think they know Jesus and for those who know they don't.

Can anyone in our high-tech world truly understand someone who lived two thousand years ago? Can we get through twenty centuries of tradition to the real person who started it all? Andreas Köstenberger shows that the Gospels, the four earliest records about Jesus, do just that. These writings, named Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, alongside key facts about the ancient world, bring Jesus's life, his words, and his legacy into focus.

Introducing Jesus gets to the heart of what was—and is—important about Jesus. Köstenberger uses succinct prose, photographs, maps, charts, and more to address these questions:

What did each gospel writer intend to convey about Jesus?

What historical backgrounds help us understand Jesus better?

What aspects of Jesus's life and teaching do the Gospels emphasize?

What does Jesus mean to people living today?

Adapted from Köstenberger's The Jesus of the Gospels (2020) for a younger readership, Introducing Jesus lends itself well to the typical organization of a high school year or college semester.

Key Features

• Explores what Jesus means to people living today
• Uses succinct prose, photographs, maps, charts, and more
• Gets to the heart of what was—and is—important about Jesus

Product Details

• Title: Introducing Jesus: The Fourfold Gospel
• Author: Andreas J. Köstenberger
• Publisher: Kregel
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2026
• Pages: 246
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Person and offices--Biblical teaching; Bible. N.T. Gospels › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780825448126, 0825448123
• Resource ID: LLS:NTDJSFFGSL
• Resource Type: text.monograph.bible-study
• Metadata Last Updated: 2026-07-23T22:41:47Z

About Andreas J. Köstenberger

Andreas J. Köstenberger (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is theologian in residence and director of the equipping center at Fellowship Raleigh, the cofounder of Biblical Foundations, and the host at Oak Tree Cottage. He is the author, editor, or translator of over sixty books, including Encountering the Gospel of John, The Book Study Concordance of the Greek New Testament, A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters, and The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples According to the Fourth Gospel. He also was previously the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society for twenty-two years.