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About the Gospel Harmony

This Gospel Harmony is based on the Gospel verse alignment developed by E.W. Bullinger, presented in Appendix 97, Appendix 156, and Appendix 166 of Bullinger's Companion Bible.

Bullinger insisted that the order of the verses remain unchanged and disparaged so-called “Harmonies” that violently rearranged them. This rearrangement was done, he said, to bring together similar events that were thought to be identical, as if “nothing the Lord said or did was ever repeated.” [Bullinger, E.W., (1974). Appendix 97: The Unity of the Four Gospels. In The Companion Bible, (p. 140). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.]

While honoring Bullinger's basic premise that the order of the verses remain unchanged, I have made a few adjustments. First of all, I needed to break on chapters, so where Bullinger might have a range of verses that span two or more chapters, I split them up as needed whenever a new chapter was encountered. There were also a few places that I felt he made alignment errors (for example, the calling of Matthew/Levi in Mat 9:9), I also usually followed Bullinger's divisions when he was making points such as the multiple temptations (Appendix 116), the multiple miracles (Appendix 138), the two entries into Jerusalem (Appendix 153), the two “End of Age” prophecies (Appendix 155), the three suppers (Appendix 157), the two annointings (Appendix 158), the multiple denials (Appendix 159), the two purchases (Appendix 161), the others crucified (Appendix 164), and the three commissions (Appendix 167). In at least one place, however, I ignored the separation, and made the three healings of the blind men at Jerico into two (Appendix 152).